There was more for me to do during production than there was pre-production, due to the fact the camera will naturally get more involved while shooting the live they not being live. I worked with the audience member into telling them that we were going to film him, and where we needed him. Because everyone else on camera wasn’t present or had little experience on being behind the camera, I helped them in framing and adjusting their shots a bit. During our rehearsal run, a couple of things went wrong, such as myself not getting a specific shot in time, because I wasn’t 100% sure with the script, which is a bad or my part not learning the script enough, but it was also a position thing. After our rehearsal run, I switched my camera position with another camera position, because we needed more light on the audience member. I worked with the audience member practising my shot position, with him standing and him sitting and determined him sitting had better lighting than him standing. During the final production, I shot a Medium Close-Up of one of the host, A Close-Up of the Audience member, and surprisingly a Long Shot of the panel. Because I was never told anything about shooting a Long Shot, I was not prepared, but I still managed to get a the shot off. During the production, I also had to adjust my shot of the host while being live, so I had to adjust it slowly and lightly enough to follow the host, as he moved a bit during a segment, so that was a challenge.

(My Camera Shots)

Compared to the last production, we were much more prepared this time around, as we thoroughly discussed the premise the shots the show. I already knew what kind of shot the director wanted and was in position for each one. The director didn’t give me much direction on what shot she wanted, because she was already happy with the type of shot I was giving her. I felt a sense of self accomplishment after doing the long shot, because I could hear the Director say liking the shot.

After reviewing the whole segment over again, the final turned out well in terms of shot selection and position. But when comparing to other talk shows I’ve done before like Syn Media 1700, I can clearly tell this is a student production, compared to a more professional broadcast. The use of graphics were really in our faces and big, compared to proper productions. It felt like it was just floating in mid air. The lighting was dark, I wish we had more options to play with the lighting. Overall I think this production went better than our last production. We prepared a lot more and discussed a lot more of what we were going to do. And being on Camera, I got to do a lot more physically, and adjust shots, which I liked doing.