Today, we had a workshop which allowed us to have a go at filming a news report. we were allowed the opportunity to use a green screen and even an autocue to allow to get used to how we would film the studio side of the news report.
Previously, we were given the task of creating a script based on a news story that our groups were given. our group was given a story about the increasing number of strikes on the London railway and the disruptions caused by this.
Here is the final script that we managed to devise over Skype:
As I have already been allocated as the studio presenter for our final group project, I stood up to the task of studio presenting this story.
At first, I found that reading from the autocue was quite difficult. However, we were able to increase the size of the font, making less words per line, therefore making it easier to read. We also had to speed up the autocue as the larger lettering meant that there was more space between each paragraph. This caused me to take long pauses between each paragraph which would have looked strange in the final edit of the news report.
After these problems were fixed, I felt comfortable reading from the autocue and was able to give a good natural performance, minus the few stutters and mis-interpretations of punctuation (of which I sloppily wrote myself)
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