Digital News Production: Live Practice

Inspiration

For inspiration with our lives we mainly looked at professional television channels such at BBC and ITV news. We watched a variety of examples on each night at 6pm and 10pm. Watching for information on our package and the way in which lives were conducted. We found the bare bones structure with interviews were essentially:

-Introduction, "I'm ... in ... "

-Explain the situation, why we are here.

-Quick interview(s) with members of public

-conclusion and tagline

We felt that if we kept to this simple but straight forward structure but added our own ideas for interesting content we could have a strong live.

Practice

We know exactly what we want to do on location at game. The plan is to go from the back of the queue to the beginning interviewing members of the public in the view on the way to the door then once we get to the door have the customers rush in store to get their copy. It seems simple enough however its all about timing.

Before we go to film however we wanted to practice the general movements of the camera and presenter and how long we have for each short interview and the intro along with the outro and tagline.

Here was our rough attempt.

Things we learnt and changed

Our idea for sound had to change as our plan as our initial idea to connect to the camera will cause too many problems and a below par level of audio. Instead we decided to use the road mic as a microphone and the use of the zoom to record audio separate. This way we can have one person working on visuals and another audio to make sure they are perfect.

Other than this we were very happy with the way we have planned our shoot and hopefully fingers crossed I will go as smoothly as possible on the night.

We also established roles on the shoot and are as follows:

Megan = Producer

Wez = Audio

Harry = Camera

Myself = Director