Second Studio Filming

After we had to take the interview with Ajay out of the live segment, the footage of the presenter in the studio which was already recorded at this time had to be reshot. This is because the script itself no longer made sense now that the entire news piece had switched around and new segments had been brought in.

Now we had rewritten the script, it was time to re-film the studio segments. However, we decided to change the set-up a bit and use two anchormen to present in the studio standing side by side. This choice was thankfully a group choice instead of just being down to George and his own preferences The two presenters were myself and Cailan. This made me glad as an earlier post I wrote was partly dedicated to my disappointment of not being the anchorman as I felt that it dampened the overall physically viewable involvement I had for the final news piece. This change allowed this worry to be retracted.

The shoot itself went mostly well. Both me and Cailan had taken a large effort to try and learn the entire script and we were both confident in what we were saying. However, we unfortunately stumbled several times when put on the spotlight (literally) in front of the camera. Though we were confident in what we had to say, we often stumbled trying to remember the lines whilst also trying to concentrate on communicating appropriately towards the camera.

It also didn't help that a certain member of the group was giving some rather patronising comments whenever we messed up. However, when we asked the other two if they would leave the room to see if we would fair better without them in the room. We did. After a few tries, we were able to perfect the part that we were previously having trouble with and even recorded the next segment with ease. Unfortunately, when it came to recording the rest of the script, the others were back in the room and we continued Mohave some trouble. Despite this, we managed to get all of the filming finished, albeit taking a lot longer than it could have taken.

Some other problems included some issues with the lighting casting shadows but this was something that we managed to deal with and thankfully did not effect the green screen effect too much.

We were also given some advice from Ferg who said that we were stood too close to the green screen and the lights would emit a green glow on us. This is something that we will have to keep in mind in the future as we had already finished the filming for our studio segments by this time.

despite these issues, I feel that today was mostly a success and I am happy with the footage.