Up to this point my interview shoots haven’t gone the way I had planned. There was either an issue with sound, white balancing, framing or all of the above. Today for the final shoot, I nailed it!!

The questions were perfect and the answers were even better.

The audio was pretty good, but still not perfect. This time I used a shotgun instead of a lapel mic and it seemed to pick up a little more of the surrounding sounds like cars passing and general sounds around the area. It’s definitely easier to use in terms of set up, but in an area such as this I felt that the better results came from the lapel mic. Though the lapel mic is slightly harder to set up the results from it were much clearer and picked up less of the surrounding sounds.

It was a great idea to familiarise myself with both the lapel and the shotgun as now I can make an educated decision on which piece of equipment to use in correspondence with the location.

The footage captured today is going to serve a great purpose and we will be able to create a 15 minute profile on Ted. We plan to follow Ted and film in some different locations. Unfortunately for the purposes of this assessment Bliss and I decided to just create a teaser. This would be published to social media and used as a platform for promotion of the full length film which would be featured on the website for those who would be interested in doing so.

What really works well about this teaser (beyond having something complete for submission) is its potential of reaching our target audience. More and more we are urging for information in small quick bursts. More students are using Facebook as a means of keeping up to date than the nightly news on TV. We are begging for quicker information in condensed doses.

This means that the teaser will allow our content to reach this wider audience – the audience that is begging for more from less.