NEWS UNIT: SHOOTING

We shot both our live interview and package on Friday, it was successful because we got the interviews we needed and we weren't pressed by the interviewees. They were all round quite helpful and up to help us out on our project.

LIVE SHOOT

We began at the Hazlitt theatre in the morning with Michael Caine (no not that one) the chairman of the Maidstone film society who told us about the the society.

Interview with Mike (live)

 Looking back I think we should have spent more time adjusting the questions to get more out of the people we were talking to. We didn't really get at the point we needed from him, which was how the society has managed to survive in the current climate of cinemas.

In general I don't think we were well enough planned for the live shoot. The point of a live is to be ready on the spot, because you can only get what the person says to camera. I think our problem was that we only did enough for a package shoot. Its something we could have cleared up with a voice over intro. However the positive for us is that we are yet to film a studio intro so there is room for alteration and and introduction if we are clever. Another thing we haven't done great is meet as a team and work on things, instead we have sort of separated into different roles for example website, casting, scripting, logistics which isn't bad but we needed to have more of a rapport with one another.

PACKAGE SHOOT

I think the package shoot we did was much more successful as we got more coverage and substance in general and will hopefully be able to make a great package with all of that. Obviously the stand out thing from both interviews is that we are using ourselves as the interviewers and not external people. This has unfortunately been a problem for us we have struggled to get someone in time, not least due to the fact that we only finalised the dates of the interviews in the last week. This all started really because we changed our original news channel idea so many times prior to arriving on Film House news.

Interview with Terry for the package

Lawrence with a piece to camera

So in truth there are some good and some not so good bits to take from the shoot on Friday, it is now up to the edit to see what we can produce. Also the voice over we do with Lawrence the presenter will set the thing up nicely as at this stage it is missing something, but we have scripted this and are ready to go on this.

Also have to mention that we will be trying to do our studio piece this coming week and we are currently trying to find a presenter for it to add that element of professionalism we desperately need to bring our channel together.