#batv

[amberrhammett]

On the 13th of February, my seminar group (C) was tasked with producing a 90-second studio drama in which we were only allowed to include 10 words of spoken dialogue. Originally, this appeared to be quite the challenge, however, once our group got to know each other and expressed our enthusiasm for this new challenge, I became excited to collaborate with a new group of my peers. 

After brainstorming, our group decided to produce a failed date in which one character proposes to the other. However, character two declines the offer and admits they are in love with character one’s brother. Our actors, Ellie Fisher-Shah and Jack Vanner were excellent at taking direction and were patient with our crew whilst we eased into our roles for our first studio drama. I took on the role of director for the day as I had not tried it before and fancied a challenge. Jack Morton was able to give me a helping hand throughout the day as he has experience directing from the semester one magazine show! 

I thoroughly enjoyed the challenge of directing, specifically working with my camera operators to decide which individual angles/shots worked best in our sequence. I would be interested in trying this role again in future studio sessions as I am interested in roles that involve taking a creative lead on set.

Overall, I would say the day was very successful! Our teamwork was excellent and I particularly enjoyed working with Ky Ozgun and Ava Bhathena-Bassett for the first time as they supported me a great deal with my first time directing. 

[brucieboy297]

[sinalabertoplanop]

Emoção ao vivo

A jornalista Olga Amaral, apresentadora do BATV da TV Santa Cruz, afiliada da Globo em Itabuna, no sul da Bahia, se emocionou ao vivo no encerramento do bloco local do telejornal na última sexta-feira (21/8).

Olga noticiava a morte do colega Marcos Antônio Batista Souza, coordenador de programação e controle master da TV Santa Cruz. O profissional da emissora trabalhava há 3 anos na emissora da Rede Bahia, mas estava há 2 anos afastado por licença médica. Ele faleceu, no mesmo dia, por complicações após uma cirurgia cardíaca feita há uma semana (em 17 de agosto), em Salvador.

Nossos sentimentos à família e aos colegas de emissora.

[morgan-does-tv-things]

Swings and Roundabouts.

Our zoom call went very well. We got footage that can round up the documentary and we were all happy with how it went.

I set to work editing it and about 3-4 hours later it was done and in sequence.

A few hours after I finished we received an email about our hand in regarding the fact that we could choose to submit a ‘plan B’ for the documentary. 5 mins of highlights and a written supporting document on what it was supposed to be.

I personally (As the stubborn person I am) will most likely finish the edit with what footage we have anyway, however the plan B option is looking very attractive to the rest of my group so I feel like in the very near future I will be putting a highlight reel together. Guess we’ll find out.

[morgan-does-tv-things]

Lightbulb moments.

Let’s do a call with our main contributor to see how they’re doing post 2-3 months in lockdown! That is a lightbulb moment. We have a mini shoot planned via Zoom which could finally give this project an end. A last say. This is most likely the best development in weeks as it will give more, much needed content to our documentary.

[morgan-does-tv-things]

Deadlines.

Under a week until the project is due in. Crunch time.

The good news is that as a group we’ve thought about our project and decided to discontinue two of our projects so that I can focus on the feedback I received for the mental health doc.

This is good news and I’m happy with the more focussed way of working!

It’s still quite a lot of work in not a lot of time but things are looking up in the post side of the project.

[morgan-does-tv-things]

I am not very good at taking fair criticism

Today I recived feedback on my main graduate project film that I am working on.

The content is fine and it looks like a nice film, however it has a very jumbled narrative and a lot of the things we have don’t make snese without some kind of context.

This upset me.

I can fix some of the things that were raised, that’s fine. But some of the things I need to do require resources I don’t have. It is exactly a week until I need ot have all of this handed in as well which is very concerning as while I think I have the time to fix some of the issues, others require whole shoots to acomplish.

I really don’t want to let my group down.

[morgan-does-tv-things]

We need to not submit at least one of our graduate project films.

Yup.

A good few months of work have now been made redundant. Well, I say that but in reality we can now use them to reflect on as an experiment and something that educated us going on towards the final hand in.

I’m not too distraught about it but it does make me feel like I could’ve spent more time on other work when I was working on the 2 edits that won’t be marked. It’s also for the best as the 2 films we are going to have as learning experiences would most likely be a hindrance to our final grade so It’s mostly all positives apart from the time I feel like could have been spent on better things if we had come to this realisation earlier.