For our first Production practises Coursework we had to do a VT insert for a multi camera TV show. We had to meet a number of requirements...
Must be shot Single Camera.
Sound must be recorded on two mic’s.
Considered images and framing
Appropriate lighting must be used (Artificial or natural)
Must be structured (Intro, Middle and ending)
Must use appropriate cutaways.
Subject for the film must be considered and reflected in film.
Producers will be asked to produce their production material as part of any tutorial.
After seeing all of the requirements this is what we came up with.
Our idea was to do our VT about guide dogs and we wanted to show how helpful and amazing they are. We then heard about an amazing guy called Nick who not only had a guide dog due to being visually impaired, Nick is an astronomy teacher for others who are also visually impaired.
I found Nick’s story so inspirational, along with the rest of my group and he was such a lovely person! When making this VT I really connected with it (even had a tear in my eye at one point (yes I’m a little emotional).
I was sound operator as you can see from one of the cut aways in the VT. I feel as though this was a real success as we struggled a little bit at the start with setting up the lighting. It also took me a little while to set up the sound as this was my first official time for filming but got it done in the end. In the future I would like to practise how to set up the sound so that I will be able to do it faster in the future which would be more convenient.
I would also like to have practise with setting up lighting and learning a little more about how it works.
