TV News Show

TV News Show

What I did?

I did the job of vision mixer and made sure all the shots were looking at the right presenter at the right time and that they switched at the right times too so they were on the presenter telling the next story.

The job roles we had were:

• Floor manager to make sure everything was running smoothly and on time.
• Sound person to make sure the talent could be heard and that their microphones were in the right place.
• Camera people to position the camera's to get all the right angles and shot for the show.
• Vision mixer to make sure each camera was looking at the right person at the right time and had the right image on the screen behind the presenter at the right time.
• Director to make sure everyone was in the right place at the right time's at all time's and to help the floor manager keep everything running smoothly.
• Presenter to read out the stories at the right time's and at the right pace so the shots worker in time.

The equipment we used was:

• Three camera's to get more shots and make our News report look more natural when changing shots and to get better shots from different angles.
• Microphones so out talent could b heard.
• We used tricaster to mix out shots with back ground images and to have a green screened back ground for our talent

On Tuesday everyone in the class brought in some recent news stories that we shared with each other. We then selected Paige to be our news editor and talked about which stories we thought we should show and why before we placed them in the order we believed to work best. We then edited our stories down so they would run smoother and snappier on the show and then we began to set up out set, giving each other jobs to do like sorting the presenter's microphones out and doing a sound check and making sure all the camera's were lined up right so the talent's eyes would be the same for each shot so it would we could switch shots without it looking messy and obvious. We also had people sorting out images on the tricaster to make sure they were in order with the stories and the camera shots. We had a director and floor manager to help people and make things run nicely and make sure everyone was in the right places. We then videoed our news show a few times changing the job roles round for other people to have ago at things before watching them back to see how it went. We all noticed they got better as they went along with less mistakes and were running more smoothly.

If we did it again I'd say edit some of the stories down a bit more to make it more snappy and easier to watch and maybe add in some video clips/live reports type of thing using the green screen to make the news come to life a little more. I'd also so maybe select story categories so we can have a sports section and maybe weather report so the stories don't seem to just be randomly put into place.