Week six:
The production team were involved in filming Nadine's feature
interview with Rowenna Davis, who is running for the 2015
Southampton, Itchen seat in parliament for the Labour Party. The
quality of the Diane James interview was criticised and was said to
look outdated when played back, so for this interview the decision
was made by Nicole to use the DSLR camera instead of the studio
cameras because they film more crisp image.
The problem with using the DSLR cameras for interviews before this
was that there is no known way to capture sound on the camera and
meant a lot of extra effort in post production because it had to be
captured separately. But Nicole discovered a simpler way to capture
sound with film using a radio mic, which is perfect for interviews
and will likely be the way that they are filmed from now on.
Because of the cameras used everything was reliant on those
watching the cameras. Sound levels could be tested in the cameras and
there were three seamless shots of the interview (interviewer,
interviewee and a two shot) so there was no need for using the
gallery equipment or live vision mixing.
I went down to Southampton university to help Sam Sheard film his interview with Professor Tim Leighton about the development of a new radar system which has the potential to save lives. We filmed in Professor Leighton's lab, which wasnt the best for lighting and was made worse by faulty white balance button on the camera, though despite this the footage wasn't terrible but could have been better. I found that throughout the interview, the Professor kept moving across the screen and out of the rule of thirds, but even when I re-framed the shot as questions were being asked, as they were answered he kept moving.
WINOL Bulletin 06/11/2013:
For this weeks bulletin I was in
control of the VT machine. Its probably the least glamorous of jobs
in gallery but by no means unimportant. The main part of this role,
other than pressing play, is checking that the VTs are in the correct
play out order and format so that they air in the right dimension and
where the VT ends. If it cuts out of a VT suddenly its my job to
communicate this to the director and vision mixer.
Being in charge of VTs requires a lot
of effort outside of the gallery in terms of badgering the news teams
for finished packages. This went smoothly and there were no last
minute changes to VTs already on the machine so we had a set of
packages ready to play out during rehearsals.
All VTs were played out on queue and
there were no hiccups; the bulletin was recorded at three o'clock
under the direction of Megan. Once the bulletin was over a few of the
links were recorded (inducing the OOV).
I helped Nicole in Post Production by cutting out the last few black holes between presenter and VT and then uploaded it to Youtube, because she was needed in the gallery.
