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Show When story's done, edited, it goes to Chrony backshop The pictures are photographed through a screen that separates it into a series of dots. These dots can be seen from close inspection. All of the negatives are then rounded up and sent downtown to the presses, to be used in printing the paper. According to Richard Shockey, Chronicle business manager, the backshop is in a period of probation this quarter. Because of the cost involved and the fact that the Chronicle is in a make it or break situation, tempers have been on edge. Until Nov. 7 the backshop people were working eight or more hours a day, at $2.60 per hour, said Shockey. But the venture has not been following his proposed budget, so he has had to cut back on their hours, pay and personnel. Shockey's reasoning was a projected $18,000 deficit that was going to put the Chronicle out of business in a year's time. That amount is over the initial $35,000 cost the backshop should entail. Shockey feels that the backshop is a good thing and is going to get off the ground and start paying for itself with a little cooperation from the staff. P ' - 1 ASw) -mm; . . -.1 by STEVE SCHOWENGERDT Chronicle Staff The Chronicle, as of this quarter, has a new $35,000 toy that carries the title of backshop. The backshop is the only one of its kind on a college newspaper in Utah and one of only six to ten found on colleges in the U.S. The backshop is located just south of the Chronicle office, in the old Utonian office. Here, under the "get it out" spirit of Mike Murphy, backshop and productions manager, the staff can be found toiling away from 5 p.m. until late night or early morning, Sunday through Thursday. Transfer to tape What happens in the backshop? When this article is finished, edited and proof read, it is sent to the backshop where it will be handed to one of two people, Margaret Dyson or Chris Hatch. Their job is to transfer the copy from regular paper onto dual image tape. This white, half-inch tape is called dual image because it is marked with a code and the actual letters of the alphabet. Ron Mitchell operates the line camera in the Chronicle's backshop. The backshop is the only one of its kind on a college newspaper in Utah and one of few in colleges across the country. Once this story is typed out on the tape it is run through a machine, a Compugraphic, which reads the tape and through a photographic process prints the ' story out in column widths on ! photographic paper. This paper is developed in a two step process, which takes from five to 30 seconds depending on the length of the story. Masochists This new copy is proof read by the night editor, whose main job is to check for mistakes and completeness com-pleteness as the paper is put together. The night editors on the Chronicle are staffers, who enjoy staying up until all hours of the morning or, in some cases, are just plain masochists. If the new copy is free of mistakes it is sent to the paste-up area. This area consists of two eight-foot-long drafting tables where backshop crew members Ken Bello and head man Murphy paste the column widths of copy : down on sheets of paper. The sheets of paper are a little larger than one page of the Chronicle. Waxed Adhesive is placed on the back of the copy by running it through a waxer. This makes it possible for the copy to be stuck down and pulled up if necessary. Then with razor blades in hand (for cutting the copy as it can run longer than a page length). Murphy and Bello paste the copy down according to directions supplied by the editors The directions come in the form of dummy sheets, or smaller sheets of paper that show where the copy and pictures go. When a page has all of the copy and ads pasted to it, the night editor must check and okay it one more time. If the page is complete it is then photographed by Murphy The pages are photographed with . the help of the biggest beast of the backshop, the line camera. When this step is through, Murphy has produced a 12x18-inch negative of each page. He shoots every picture that will be in the paper too. |