Progress Update

Friday, 30th November 2012



Over the last few lessons, and lessons to come, we have been playing with Adobe Premiere CS5 in an attempt to film in front a green screen. After following a guide on-line we have produced the video above. It's far from perfect but we do now have a vague idea of what we should do. According to the on-line guide, positioning the speaker 6 foot in front of the screen will create a better effect, while lighting the screen and speaker more fully will reduce shadows. For our final film, we will also hang the screen better to eliminate shadows and creases which are visible in the video above.

Progress Update

Sunday, 18th November 2012

Running Order

Order:

Channel ident -> introducer introduces news

Summarize the day’s top stories: 4 stories -> inserts of relevant footage

‘Also’, ‘And’ used as co-ordinating conjunctions -> last story is light-hearted/uplifting

Intro sequence

“Good Evening. Welcome to the news at 6” -> stood up in front of desk

Introduces first story -> “Our middle-eastern correspondent ‘John Davis’ reports from Gaza”

Dramatic opening shot of story -> outside reporter states time of incident -> reports the story

Shot of reporter talking about story -> may be walking towards the camera

Back to voiceover inserts

Interview with person related to incident

“Will Davis. BBC News. Gaza” sign out

Back to studio -> “Our correspondent Kathy Smith is in Ashbor. Kathy…” -> she gives her opinion, other facts she has learned -> LIVE -> “Kathy Smith in Ashbor. Thank you.”

Here, is a rough running order that we drew up after watching the BBC News at 6. We had realised that presenters introduce stories in a certain order, while sticking to certain agendas, and we wanted to follow this recognized formula to make our news report look as authentic as possible.

Progress Update

Friday, 16th November 2012

Marjon Masterclass

Here is the video diary of our day trip to UCP Marjon.

Throughout this day, we created a news story for the front page of a tabloid newspaper, and then created our own viral video to raise attention for our story. This process should really help our final project as we will have to present a story that we have researched and then film one of us presenting this news. This is similar to the process we followed at Marjon.

Our front page covering the 'Marjaws!' story

Our task was to create a story that had a link with Marjon but was to be as exciting as possible. So, we decided to cover the presence of a shark that had got into the Marjon pool. This involved taking the picture, editing the shark into the picture, creating the headline, and writing the story.

Marjon's Trip

Tomorrow, 14th November, we will be visiting UCP Marjon's for a Media Masterclass on Journalism and the process of making a news reel. This will hopefully give us a fuller insight into how to make a professional-looking report and help us with our final project.

Progress Update

Tuesday, 13th November 2012
Today, we discussed how we would film our tracking shot. We decided to create a structure that would allow the camera to slide over a piece of wood. This would then allow us to produce a seamless and smooth tracking shot.