TV NEWS; SHOOT DAY

On Monday 9th October we had our very first filming day, for this day we had 2 different parts that we wanted to film, this included
1) Joel (Main presenter) opening and closing links filmed behind a green screen)
2) Our 'live' section - an interview between Joel and our credit expert Rosie Evans
We first of all booked out one of the lecture rooms in the base room to use for filming; we thought that would be best because we planned to transform the room into our own little studio set to film in. We arrived at the studios at 7am to set up the room; with our presenter arriving at 9am; we took all of the chairs out of the room and set up the sofas in the corner, Aimee had created some paper logos and we stuck these onto the mugs that we had set up on the set coffee table, something we had seen before in other news/magazine shows such as this morning.


 Furthermore we had already had the other half of the room set up from Friday, we set up the green screen as that is where we would be filming Joel on his main links. Our main issue with this came from being able to light the green screen properly. We hadn't had a lot of experience with this so it was very much a trial and error situation; we used the 650 tungsten lights and just kept repositioning them until we eventually got there.

I think that overall this day of filming went quite well. Something that was new for us with this was having an external person coming in to take part who none of us had met before. Anyone i have used before including Joel we have always known, Rosie Evans who we interviewed as our expert was someone we had sourced ourselves and it was interesting to see how that was; we had to make Rosie feel welcome and looked after but also make sure we got the answers we wanted. When we filmed the live interview between Joel and Rosie i was timing the 2 minutes on my phone whilst the others were on the camera; we soon discovered that 2 minutes went very quick and we only got 2 out of our 6 questions answered; therefore i looked over the questions and condensed them down to three; asking Rosie and Joel if they would mind filming it again so we could get some more content; in the end the second time it worked very well.

Next Steps; Next up for this project was finding a case study - we wanted to put the credit schemes we were talking about into context and create a story around someone who had these problems themselves and how it had effected their lives. We tried multiple ways of contacting people - Aimee and Laura created different posts on Mums net and other social media sites such as Facebook, however we got no response. Finally i managed to find someone through a friend of a friend who was willing to take part if the interview is anomalous because it is such a sensitive subject. We have played around with different ideas on GVS of our case study without showing her face and we are hoping it will work out very well.