A Day as a Camera Girl

Filming for the first time was really exciting but did make me quite anxious. I've never filmed with cameras so technical and challenging before. To know whether to put the sound on external or internal, manual or automatic, to use the tripod or have the shots hand held. Also I learnt where to hold the microphone. With the wind so strong it was affecting how James (who helped with filming) and I heard the presenter, therefore we took the microphone off the camera and held it out in front of us to hear more clearly.

I learnt a lot about how to position the protagonist off centre, either to the left side or right. The off centre gave a very professional image, as we were able to capture an appropriate background to tie in with the story. This was also used when interviewing people to get them to look as though the audience were looking over the shoulder of the interviewer.

As the script had to be re-written for the LGBT story we had to, as a team, make sure that the script had the correct information and that it flowed. As this was the first script I had re-written and proof read I remembered ‘The Rise and Fall of Freytag’s Pyramid’ from Videojournaliam multimedia storytelling book. This rise and fall helped to place, into the script, what the climax would be (Voxpops and interviewing Michael Pearson) and the denouement (the conclusion for the story). I was surprised when it helped with writing a script for a news report as it is mainly for storytelling, but I found it was a very useful source.