Our assignment for the TV part of our course was to create a news report about Christmas shopping. I was put in a group with Hazel Pace, Laura Battle, Heather Newland and Matt Mansfield.
We were sent out into Farnham with a camera and a microphone to investigate our topic. We started by delegating roles, Matt was chosen as the cameraman, as he seemed to understand the equipment the best. Laura was the camera assistant and helped to write the scripts for the piece to camera and voiceover. Hazel was the director and a presenter as she felt the most comfortable in front of the camera. Heather was the second news presenter and helped with the editing of the finished piece.
I was in charge of the sound for the production of our News report. This involved me holding the microphone and editing the sound for the piece. I also helped to edit the finished product.
The first thing we did was to record Heather doing a link to Hazel in Farnham. We filmed this in the radio studio as this provided a different background, keeping the two reports separate. We then searched for a shop window, which had Christmas decorations in it in order to record Hazels piece to camera. Hazel then introduced herself and introduced the report.
We then made our way to the sweet shop in search for some people to interview and met a woman who was very co-operative and agreed to let us interview her about whether she had finished her Christmas shopping or not. We also interviewed the owner of the sweet shop to see if the recession had affected the sale of sweets over Christmas.
On our way back to the university we filmed certain parts of Farnham in order to use them in our voiceover, which we recorded in the radio studios using the radio equipment.
Overall I think our video was a success, we worked well together as a group and therefore managed to produce a well-filmed and edited piece. I enjoyed the part that I had to play in the group and felt included and that I had a vital part to play.
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