09 May WORKBOOK – VT PACKAGE
February 12th – We had the morning session with Rebecca, we started off by looking at different VT packages. It helped us compare different packages and learn what the best VT packages include. An example of a VT package was one on the start of London night tubes. We also went through a long list of vocabulary, such as filming sequence, cutaways, vox pops and piece to camera. The last thing we went over are the roles and responsibilities of making a VT package.
We were then split into our VT package groups, where we were instructed to create a short VT about student life. We had to stay within the university and take around 10 shots each. My group decided to focus on student/young adult smoking. Thus we walked around filming students smoking (checking for their permission). As well as filming university signs, signs saying ‘no smoking’, the smoking area and CTV cameras.
In the afternoon session we had Micheal, where we focus on radio rather than video. We were looking at many different sources and were introduced into different sites that can help us out in the future. We were shown ‘PA’ which is a form of news archives, ‘BoB’ which is a form of website that has TV on demand. Lastly, we were shown ‘IRN’ which is another news source. We were shown how to use the website and how they would come in handy for us.
We ended the session by going over something we discussed a lot the first semester, which is in bias in journalism and how we can minimise it.
February 19th – For the first session with Rebecca, we discussed the homework from the previous class. Each VT group presented our VT’s on student life to the class. We were provided with feedback from both Rebecca and the class, enabling us to make improvements in the future.
We moved onto the second part of the homework where we analysed a news channel of choice. could choose between BBC news, Channel 5 and Channel 4 news. We were given a form to fill in which had a few different questions. We had to write about the story line of the entire show. We had to talk the audio and visual elements of a specific VT. We also had to mention which filming sequences and interviews would have been planned prior to planning. Lastly, we had to discuss how much background information they provided on each story.
The entire class choose the BBC news so we all took part, I gave a lot of input about the story-line and explained what type of information they provided for each story.
The class was then split into our VT groups, done in order for us to start preparing for our VT’s that we will be making regarding Brexit. On the 26th of February, we will be going to Westminster to view a protest on Brexit. Only me and one other member of my group were present, so we started off by using SiSo to book out the equipment for the day. We also discussed the different types of angles we could take and what type of roles everyone could do.
To finish up the lesson, Rebecca gave us an assignment again in order to prepare for next week. In order to practice out PTC’s, we were given the following two complex sentences; “Record numbers of students from China and Hong Kong are applying for places at British universities, according to official figures.”
Data from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas) shows a spike in demand for undergraduate places from mainland China and a small rise in applications from the EU, despite fears over Brexit.”
My team mate and I both practiced doing the piece to camera as well as filming.
February 26th – Today was a really fun day, we had a field trip at the houses of parliament in Westminster. We were given an assignment to create a VT package on Brexit.
Before going on this field trip, my group met up and discussed what angle we would want to take and our order of filming. We decided that we would focus on teen opinion’s on Brexit. At the time of filming the labour party had just backed a second referendum, meaning that younger people would have a chance to vote, thus we focused on asking teens about this when we interviewed them.
We then decided on who would do what and the order of our VT package. We decided that I would be the presenter and camera woman, Craig an interviewer and cameraman, Alessia also an interviewer and the editor and Matt would do the voice over as well as the research.
Lastly, we created a general order of out package. We decided that we wanted to start it off with shots of the houses of parliament and then the presenter would start off talking about where we are, what’s going on and what we are going to be talking about. Moving on to shots of protestors, houses of parliament etc which will be shown with the voice over in the background, discussing Brexit statistics regarding younger people. Next would be interviews with young protestors or people around and asking them about what they think about Brexit and how they feel now that a second referendum has been backed. We would then finish up the package with the presenter concluding and signing off. We had a few other things we wanted to add in however because of time constraints we had to change it up.
The day was absolutely perfect for creating a VT package, the sun was shining and there were quite a few protestors around as well as we were there when Theresa may enter the house of commons.
The filming went rather well as we knew exactly what we wanted to do so we were just trying to get it done. However, we did struggle with finding younger people, because what we didn’t really consider was that everyone would be at collage/university. Thus, none of the protestors were young enough to use for our package but we managed to find some younger people about.
I think that out video turned out really good, it was edited really well and we managed to get quite a lot of information in the short time we had.
Later on in the day, we moved onto doing our audio files with Michael. I decided to do a walk around podcast, meaning that what I had to do was simply explain where I am and what is going on around me. I stood directly in front of the houses of parliament, where all the protestors and police were. It took me over 10 tries until I got a recording. that I was happy with.
At the end of the day we stayed around the houses of parliament for a bit to see if Theresa May was coming out and then eventually we were allowed to go home/stay/choose what we wanted to do.
1st April – My group started to discuss different ideas that we could do for the VT, we all suggested a bunch of different ideas. Such as ‘The great Hampstead Bark Off’ or covering 4/20.
2nd April – We decided that we would cover the underbelly festival in Southbank, we called up the organisation whom gave us and email and told us to email the situation.
4th April – We got a response where he organised for us to meet someone that could give us some good information and an interview. Sadly, the event didn’t work out, none of us could make it there and so we had to scratch the idea.
13th April – We decided that we could cover 4/20 at Hyde park.
18th April – We decided that we didn’t want to cover 4/20 as it would not work out with our schedules and we didn’t feel a real connection to the event.
19th April – We thought that we could possibly cover the London Cats International show and expo.
25th April – We browsed more ideas, getting stressed reaching the date. We thought we could cover the Roof East event but we figured out that there wasn’t anything new about the event that we could cover a it had already been on for a few days.
27th April – I suggested to the group to cover the NewsRevue event at the Southbank underbelly festival. Sadly no one was able to join me to the event, so this, once again, did not work out.
30th April – We decided that we will cover the impacts of extinction rebellion, as we don’t have footage ourselves we found a press packet on their website that we would be able to use for the VT.
3rd May – Craig and I went to a climate event held by Extinction rebellion, however when we got to parliament square, there were only a few protestors and thus we didn’t feel that it would be good enough to film, however we did try to get interviews before realising it isn’t the best thing to do. We met a woman called Gabby who told us about the ‘Beehive Babies’ event that was happening on Sunday. Craig and I went to Starbucks and sat and planned, we did a bunch of research, wrote the script and the plan. We also posted on the event on Facebook to see if anyone would talk to us.
Gabrielle Boyle, 07956383966 (used for vox pop)
Links we found for the script:
file:///Users/georginarb/Downloads/CDP-2017-0226.pdf
https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/CDP-2017-0226
https://www.earthday.org/2018/05/23/fact-sheet-bees/
https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/sustainable-agriculture/save-the-bees/
The facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/408341359944109/
4th May – Got a response from the Facebook page and they invited us to the XR headquarters.
5th May – Craig and I went to the XR headquarters at 12, we got to look around the place and talk to a few people, we also got a bunch of posters and stickers. We then went to Beehive Babies event, starting off at Trafalgar square, we stayed there and filmed in the intro and other shots, we then marched with them, all the way to Buckingham palace. There is where the children gave a letter to a guard to hand over to the queen. From there we marched to the park nearby and all set up pic-nic stuff, this is where we filmed the vox pops and the interview and the outro and other shots as well.
Interview: Ramon Salgado-Touzon, 07884958740.
6th May – Craig, Alessia and I met up at my halls and we went through all the videos taken at the event, choosing which ones we would want to use and the order that we would want them to be in. We also recorded the voice over with the microphone.
7th May – Alessia sent the editing that she had done so far to get some feedback on what we thought.
8th May – Alessia finished editing the entire thing, along with the feedback that we gave her. She sent the video. We gave a bit more feedback for her to edit.
9th May – Alessia, Craig and I met up at the library, where we watched the VT together and edited a few things. We did the forms together and all submitted and finished everything else off.
BY GEORGINA BLACKWELL
