Ever wondered what it takes to make or break the news?
Well, we're giving you a behind the scenes
of Behind The News,
a behind Behind The News, if you will.
Jack, what are you doing? We're recording!
Oh, sorry. Whoops!
A week on BTN starts like this -
with us all trying to figure out what stories to put in the show.
The federal budget is about to be announced.
Look at these baby otters!
Aw!
I'm excited to say there's a new breed of dog
that only walks backwards.
That can be tricky...
Don't think that's true.
..but we try to pick things that are, well, firstly, true...
..but also interesting and important to our audience.
Our producer decides what's hot, what's not and who will do what.
The biggest news story of the week is probably the budget.
So, Ruby, can you do that for me?
I'm already crunching the numbers.
Ugh! Then comes the research.
We have an education team,
that helps make sure our stories are teaching you what you need to know,
and a special archive team, who helps us to find pictures
from all over Australia to help illustrate our stories.
Found some fantastic disco material from the '70s.
# Shake your groove thing
# Yeah, yeah. # Ooh, fab!
Thursday is the really fun day.
That's when we go out to film stories
with a camera operator and sound recordist.
Sometimes we go out to interview experts...
Meet Miss Poirot, grammar detective.
..or meet kids who are doing cool things.
Wake up and smell the coffee!
ALL: Recycle!
And sometimes we get young actors to explain our stories.
Can you tell us your full name?
William Shakespeare, playwright.
Of course, we get to do a fair bit of dressing up too.
What? How else do you explain negative gearing?
Right...
While we're busy filming, our graphic artists are busy
putting together any animations we might need.
I would like a budgie to represent the budget.
Then it's time to pick some music.
Then record our voiceover.
And that's got PEOPLE worried.
And THAT'S got people worried.
Hm.
We have editors who carefully piece together all the parts of our story.
Then it's time to put the whole show together.
This is where Amelia gets to do what she does best.
Another story that you might have heard a lot about lately
involves Australian banks.
Coming to camera two and...take.
This is our director.
She films all the links that join the show together.
And once it's ready, it's beamed out to TVs
right across the country and uploaded online.
Of course, BTN isn't the only show that's being made here.
We have our daily program, BTN Newsbreak.
ALL: Hi!
These guys have to work really fast to research, write, film
and edit their stories every day.
What stories have we got today, Olivia?
Meanwhile, Ruby's putting together a kids news podcast.
Hey, what's up? It's Ruby here with a BTN news update...
And Nick and Oscar here making videos for social media,
while Daniel looks after the website.
VOICEOVER: Australia is at war.
Oh, and sometimes, we do special projects,
like virtual reality experiences.
This looks so good.
So, that's BTN.
We have fun making it and hopefully, you guys have fun watching it.