Today we were given the task by Rachel Royce to create a news package about a global news story. Due to the story being ongoing and of a sensitive nature i will not be talking about the story we were given. However i found the lesson to be particularly challenging. We split up into our groups so i was working with Danny and Chris. After lunch i googled the story and read an article from the guardian newspaper about it and found out a lot more about the case, i then began making notes about the story so that i knew the key facts and important things to do with it. This helped me to get a better understanding and also helped when setting up interviews and 'deciding who to interview'. The parts of this part of the task i found challenging were figuring out how we were going to cover the story and what new and interesting angle could we bring to it. After speaking with Helen she asked us to think more about the location we were in for the story and what could we use about this location to make it a bit more personal to the public. This helped us to begin our PTC and find a interesting way of using the location and tell the story.
The next part of the task was to interview 2 people about the story, the first interview was easy to think of as they were a family member so Danny stepped in to play this role. The 2nd proved more difficult and the only person we could think of was a lawyer as we weren't sure who else aside from a made up expert we could use. The interview with Danny was tough as he had to remember a lot of facts and ad lib them into a normal conversation as if he was telling the story himself. He managed to do a very convincing performance as also get some key facts in whilst giving some emotion to make it believable.
Chris was in charge of camera and sound for this shoot so we just used a clip mic so that he wouldn't have to hold a boom as well. We alternated the clip mic to the person that was talking or in a 2 person shot we used the person who was talking first and have them stand close together. Obviously in a normal situation we would have a clip mic on the reporter and a boom over the 2nd person to get the sound coverage and make it equal level.
Overall i feel I've learnt a lot about how a reporter works and the kind of script involved from facts, it also helps me to prepare for interviews as sometimes the answers people give aren't enough so you need to draw more out of them and reword the question slightly to encourage a certain answer that they may have mentioned in a previous take but not this time around. This is a problem we had with Roy Dyer in Hero Hounds and was a useful tool. I feel i understand how quickly you need to set up and also what jobs people can be doing in the group or be in charge of. Assigning these roles helps save time.
Stay safe,
Helen
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