Interaction Between Main and Support Creative Staff When Television Programme Preparing: on and off Camera

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to analyze the main aspects of interaction between the main and auxiliary creative staff in the process of preparing a television programme, and also to explore the history of the creation of morning programmes on the basis of the Ukrainian information and entertainment television show Breakfast with 1+1; to analyze the professional tasks of specialists; to identify how this format has changed over more than half a century; to clarify the job responsibilities of the team and its impact on the quality of the broadcast; to compare morning news in peacetime and wartime based on the work of colleagues during this period; to study the history of the 1+1 TV channel’s morning programme and its changes over 25 years. Research methodology. The following methods were used: theoretical – to compare foreign morning projects of the 50s of the 20th century; empirical – to observe the work of the team off-screen, to analyse the work of the morning show staff, and their impact on the air; comparative – to consider the peculiarities of work in pre-war and wartime. Scientific novelty. For the first time, the author analyses the aspects of interaction between the main and auxiliary creative staff in the process of preparing a television programme, based on the analysis, reveals the work of the morning broadcasting team in wartime, describes the job responsibilities of employees in emergency circumstances, provides examples of new headings, draws parallels between foreign and domestic morning shows, and summarizes the history of the creation of this format on foreign and Ukrainian television. Conclusions. On the basis of the Ukrainian information and entertainment television show Breakfast with 1+1, the article has studied in detail the history of the morning programmes’ creation; it has analysed the professional tasks of specialists, in particular those who work behind the scenes; it has compared the morning news in peacetime and wartime based on the work of colleagues during this period; it has studied the history of the creation of the morning programme of the 1+1 TV channel, as well as its changes over the past 25 years.