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Today we had a workshop about Television studio production. The workshop was split up into two parts, the first was live studio production, in which we had to create a live studio set up, linking up the camera's to the vision mixer making sure that they're synced properly, lighting up the actors making sure there not under or over exposed, connecting the mic's up making sure the audio levels weren't peaking on the vision mixer, and recording a live recorded show.
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| we only used SDI out to go into the Vision Mixer |
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| This was before the Camera was connected up properly |
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| The vision mixed Andy was using |
The other part of the workshop was learning about how to use a green screen, in regards to lighting up the green screen and also your actor properly, making sure that your not getting any shadows on the green screen, and that your actor stands out from the green screen so that there's no spillage of green onto them. Once the lighting was correct, we then filmed and composited the footage over a tropical beach background, using after effects to key out the green leaving just the actor on the after effects timeline with the tropical background behind her.
Live studio Production
In the workshop we had to carry out certain roles which was:
Director Myself/Andrei
My role was to see the overall production of the show, to make sure that the actors were briefed on what they were to do, checkout out how the end result would look on screen, and amending anything i did not see fit, such as stage background, lighting, camera position/movement, letting Roxanne know if there was anything i wanted changing, as she would relay the message to the rest of the team.
Floor Director / Floor manager Roxanne
Roxanne was the second in command, anything i would ask her to do, she would relay the message to the rest of the team.
Floor director or floor manager, is the senior productions taff position in the studio, A floor director is like an all in-studio representative of the Director. He or she relays commands from the Director to the entire studio staff - some of these will be audible, and some will be 'translated' into hand gestures.
Camera operator Lex & Michael
Lex and Michael were responsive for operating the camera's. The set up we went for was Lex on the doll track panning from left to right, and Michael was in a fixed position, just behind danny
Vision Mixer operator Andy
Andy was in control of the vision mixer, selecting between either camera angle whilst the live show was happening.
Floor runner, Lighting Ck & Charlie
Ck and Charlie were runners and lighting operators, just generally sorting out the stage preparation, making sure that the actors were properly light, moving the lights around when requested, and also moving equipment around, cleaning the stage and so forth.
Interviewer and interviewee Aimee & Danny
Aime and Danny were the two people whom were performing on camera, Danny was the interviewer and Aimee was the interviewee.
Overall feedback
Overall the workshop was definitely a good experience, i learnt a lot on what goes into a live studio production, and it has definitely prepared me for the studio production unit that we have for next term, in regards to knowing what my weak points are; which was firm communication. However, given the short amount of time we had to operate in i feel that i did do a good job, and i've definitely taken pointers from the workshop on what to research for, so next time I'm faced with the Directors role of the task i will carry it out more efficiently, although, i do feel that i would be suited more to floor manager role where i know how everything works, so me being in that position i would be able to communicate with everyone a lot better, and focus on the setting up of the equipment, leaving the visual output to the director.
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For todays workshop, we had a seminar on editing with a picture editor from the BBC called John, whom shared with us his workflow of editing up footage for factual programs, sports programs and so forth, letting us know quick workaround work flows to speed up post-production, and also showing us editing techniques that he used on some of the programs that he worked on, namely Inside out London edition. Here is one of them below:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0071mkv/clips
Rest of the clips are on this website
The software that he uses most of the time is Final cut pro 7, but he also emphasised that the software is only a platform for you to work on, and that you mainly need to concentrate on the skill of editing itself and not necessarily the software, that the skill should come first then the software after.
We were also set a sync assembly exercise, we were given footage of an interview, the transcript of that interview, with segments of the text highlighted out for us to cut those specific words/sentences together, and also cut away clips to edit together with the interview.
Here is my end result:
On Monday 31st of march, we had a Director of photography workshop with Peter Lloyd-Williams whom is an award winning cameraman of itv with over 20 years experience filming news, documentaries and features, sport and commercials in just about every conceivable location and with a wide range of people.
His professional contacts within the television industry are extensive.
Our areas of experience/expertise:
- Documentary/feature work
- Multi camera live work
- Drama
- Aerial filming (helicopters / light aircraft / fast jets / balloons / microlights etc.)
- Ski filming
- Yachting/boat filming
During the workshop, i worked with with Aimee Saunders, Andy Cox and Sam Creamer.
Some of the activities we done throughout the workshop was, prepare a camera & lighting setup for an interview within a restricted time-limit, emulating a real life scenario.
We had 30 minutes to shoot and edit a quick interview, which was improvised, and we had to use a selection of coverage shots that we had been taught within the workshop
A good tip that Peter told us, was to always have a piece of blue-tac on us when we're filming, incase if someone has a picture that we need to take a still shot of, and haven't got nowhere to put it, we can place in on the wall and get a steady shot of the picture.
