Wednesday 12 November 2014
Today we was reshooting our news anchor package, where due to feedback from our last rough cut, it was suggested that maybe we could change up the language and tone of voice in which our anchor was presenting herself to the camera/audience.
Ren
To get Ren prepared to read the script, i advised her to read our the script in a more relaxed tone of voice while still formal, but less serious and a bit slower than she previous read the script in. Because during our feedback, one of the remarks made about our news anchor was that the language and tone was too formal for our branding.
Ipad TelePrompTer app
In order to get Ren to follow the script whilst looking at the camera, i downloaded a free app on my iPad called TelePrompTer Lite by Matt Cowling on the app store https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/teleprompter-pro-lite/id578104295?mt=8
What this app does is prompts the person speaking with an electronic visual text of a speech or script.
With the app, i loaded her script onto the auto cue software so that she could read it off of the iPad.
During filming Mark held the iPad above the camera
Green Screen
Using the pegs provided and also the stands, we hung up the green screen as straight as possible, making sure that there was no creases in the screen to prevent any shadows being casted onto it.
Base Room
+lighting kit + Reflector
We had the curtain down, using the lighting kit to create our own light source, because where the weather was random; we could not rely on the daylight, with risk of the room going from light to dark during our shoot.
Where we were using the lighting kit to provide our own source of light, in order to reduce some of the glare on Rens face due to the powerful fill light, we bounced the fill light off of a reflected that was some distance away from the light, and then bounced the light from the reflector onto Rens face. The reason that we done this is because, light looses its strength the longer the distance it travels, also, if it's being bounced off of a material on top of this; it will further diffuse the light making it weaker, but bright enough to cast a nice fill light onto Rens face, and not seem over exposed on camera.
Wireless mic
Ren worse the wireless mic, running the wire from underneath her top and up through her shirt collar.
Camera
We used the Sony PMW100 camera again, with the wireless mic plugged into the camera to receive the audio from Ren, and the camera was mounted on a tripod in order to get a stable solid shot.
Unfortunately i didn't take a picture of the camera settings, however, i remember what our settings was...
Our Kelvin was set at 6500 to emulate a day temperature, to give the footage a slight blueish tone before lighting up the set
Our exposure/aperture was set to f5 to control how much light was coming into the camera that was reflected off of Ren's shirt, and also the green screen plus wall behind the green screen.
Here is the final image... unfortunately a light went out during our shoot so there was a slight shadow casted on the right side of Ren's arm, however, it shouldn't worry too much because there was no green spillage on her from the green screen in the background.
Overall i feel today went really well, Ren performed exceptionally well and was really quick to adapt to the changes we suggested that she made in reading the script. It was unfortunate that a light went our during our shoot, however, this should not affect our post production process as the footage was still evenly lit and there was no green spillage onto Ren herself.
