FM25420 Creative Documentary Peter Williams

This week was pretty interesting because I chose to be director for our film this time which was a book show aimed at kids, we had a presenter reading a little miss book with a camera aimed at her along with two separate cameras each side aimed at two copies of the book which we would cut to while reading it. I have to say I chose to be director because I thought it would be really challenging for me and a different experience, and boy was I right. It felt quite good to have the final say over everything in the script, if I didn’t like a shot all I had to do was say “cut shot 24” and it was removed from the script just like that. However, the one part was really challenging was that I had to keep up with my lines for each shot transition and say cut every time a shot was done and say stand by the following camera after the next shot, now while that sounds quite easy as I type it out its actually doing it with the camera. During our first rehearsal I got lost several times because of ...

So then, this week we were given the task of creating a short news broadcast, we had meet up last week and acquired a presenter to read the news, then after the workshop last week we decided upon our roles. I decided to be the Captions manager which is nothing like what it sounds like. When I chose it, I was expecting to be operating the teleprompter or creating subtitles, but instead I was handling inserting the pictures from our stories and the news logos transition. Don’t get me wrong It wasn’t bad at all, I actually quite enjoyed it because its not normally what I’d associate myself with doing at all in the media industry. It was just different is all. Overall, I feel we did a good job on the broadcast and that our group works well as a team. Although I did notice several things we could have improved upon though. Mostly we should have rehearsed the end instead of jumping straight into it like we did, but I don’t mind letting that one slide as we had over run the schedule anyway ...

So then, this week we had a quick recap on what we learnt last week before setting out to our task this week which was to film an interview for a talk show. We were all assigned to different roles and I was assigned to operate Camera 3 aimed at the presenter while camera 2 was aimed at both presenter and guest in a long shot and 1 at the guest. This week we also used the radios more, we had looked at them and had a short go with them last week but it was only this week when we really got to use them, it was pretty cool talking to people in a different rooms without a cell phone, it kind of brought me back to being a kid on the farm in Canada when we used to use CB radios to talk to each other during the harvest with full CB lingo. I gotta admit I was really tempted to use my CB talk but I was sure most people there wouldn’t know what I was on about. Anyway, with the help of the radios we worked well together and created a fairly good video. I mean I saw quite a few ways we could have ...

This is the first week of Creative Studio and I'll be using this blog to keep a week by week record of this module. So, to start with is this first week, this week we learnt about the module itself and what it consists of. We also had a go with the equipment we’ll be using throughout the 10 weeks, first we took a look at the cameras and I’ve gotta say there a lot different from the cameras I use for Youtube and those for the previous creative modules. First off, there all on mounts and tripods with wheels on them and the recording and from what I can tell a few other bits like the white balance are controlled from the galley above use, I may be wrong maybe there are buttons to control it on the camera itself but I didn’t get a chance to take a thorough look at the camera. Anyway, after that we went upstairs to the galley, where the director, producer and a few others not needed in the studio at the filming time would work from. While up here we took a look at all the equipmen...