Today for Dave's lesson, he told us that we are going to practice creating a news report. Our lecture came up and created his own script for today's lesson based on Jack and Jill and picked on us on who's doing what for today's task. He picked me to take part in acting and my role was being the witness during this news report called Miss Dumpty, Liam was also picked to be actor and his role was the reporter and also Elesha role was the Anchor while everyone else was taking part in using all the equipment to film us.
We were very lucky with the weather as it was very sunny out so we all decided to go out and film the report and witness role outside. Dave our lecture was the director and he wanted us to film right by the Mount Pleasant halls for our reporter (Liam) to explain where the incident happened.
The pictures below shows our set on location for the news report while we film Liam during is role as a reporter.
Once we filmed and finished with Liam's parts, it was my turn to be filmed for my part which is being the witness for this report. My job was to listen to where the director wants me to stand and where to look and at first he wanted me to stand directly into the camera and look straight into it while saying my lines.
We ended up not using this video because it was a bad shot for a witness so I ended up looking sidewards to Liam while the camera was next to me which makes it look more realistic for a news report when a reporter is speaking to the witness and the witness looking at the reporter telling him about the incident. This made it a lot better because as I said it looked more realistic compared to the first shot we took with me just looking straight into the camera. We then took another shot so the camera was over my shoulder showing that I was talking to the reporter and that he looked interested in my story about the incident.
There were many problems while filming on location today. Due to us given the script on the day it took Liam ages to film as he kept forgetting his lines and he had to remember them straight away. Other problems that happened were that as it was a sunny day, the clouds kept moving in front of the sun now and again which change the lighting so we had to wait until the lighting was right again, there were many students and staff walking past that you can here them talk, walking, cars driving off etc which interfiered with our sound while trying to record for mine and Liam's lines so we had to stop majority of the time and also as Liam kept forgetting his lines, the time that he finished and we had to film me, the camera battery was very low on one bar so we basically had to rush our way through my lines to finish off the location part of the news report. We also ran out of time to film for Elesha part of being the Anchor in the studio as our lesson was finished so we had to film her part for next lesson. Apart from all the problems, I really enjoyed the lesson as Dave helped us a lot to come up with ideas for a story and also how to film on location properly.
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