This week I was in the headlines again, was top story in the bulletin and did my first in studio chat.
The week started off quite poor as I chased three stories Monday morning which all fell through, I guaranteed an interview for Tuesday afternoon as a last ditch attempt for at least an oovact.
I was contacted by Brian on Tuesday morning to cover a story on local volunteers filling extra sandbags to cope with flooding in Winchester city centre. I spent a couple of hours here getting shots for sequences and interviews with volunteers and fire crews from Hampshire. The firemen then directed me to where they were actually taking the sandbags – this was a prime place to find my case study.
I feel that at the scene my quotes were okay but my case study was much better. The two volunteers when I was editing were far too over exposed, the sun was really bright and I did try two different angles when I was on site but there was not much I could play with.
The natsot and action shots I feel worked really well as I was by myself I think I obtained a lot of images to mess about with when editing. When heading down to water lane, I needed my case study and a few GVs. This week I made sure that I filmed all GVs with a tripod to eradicate all shakey shots, I struggled to get a case study the first time I went down to the lane but managed to get it the second time and secured a good, solid ‘it’s a nightmare’ quote.
During editing, I knew the shots I wanted to open with with rich water sounds to hit the viewers with. Ian wanted me to change the beginning to follow a logical sequence with more water then into the sandbags. I had to cut one of my interviews to secure the best quotes possible – I had to kill my babies. Sequences next week need to be closer and get down at a lower level, it’ll take longer but needs to be done.
Once again I had trouble this week with my scripting but managed to put a pun in the first line and the rest flowed nicely to the pictures.
I was pleased with my overall package, except the first interview and should have had some more water shots. You can never have enough pictures. I had all of the elements which is what I need to aim for every week now.
My in studio chat went much better than I originally expected, I filled it with facts and did exactly what an in studio chat should do. I could have done with remembering it a bit better but I did well overall with little practice.
My headline clip needed more water action however the quote worked really well.
This week I intend to have the same elements as I have done so with the flooding package but improve it all technically and produce an equally interesting story but on a different beat.
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