For one of my groups for the filming exercise I was the producer which meant I had to create a script for our talent. After the director communicated with me what the subject matter of our news segment would be, how to use less wasteful materials, it was pretty easy to come up with a quick script.

On the day of filming I wasn’t able to attend and there were definitely some communication issues within my group. I had uploaded the script to a shared google doc created by the director but before filming there were problems finding the script but thankfully after communicating with me they were able to find it. I think the filming session would have been quite stressful, especially as there were quite a few groups with everyone having different roles. Obviously because it was a lot of peoples first time using such a big studio space in a professional sense and some were still not overly familiar with the equipment, it is understandable that there may have been time management issues.

Watching the footage my group filmed, I think the camera operators did a really good job with the talent being placed well within each shot. However I do think that the director could have given more instruction to the vision switcher and graphics operator. At times the camera stays on the same shot for quite an extended amount of time and the visuals could have been more similar to what you would see on a morning news tv program.

I was disappointed I could not attend the filming session because I was really interested in experimenting with the role of vision switching in my second group but hopefully for the Fact Check Brief final assignment I can pursue vision switching.