Training Course Week
Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:45 am
Dear all,
I have just come back from an intense training course. The course was from wednesday to sunday, 7.00am to 10.30pm! My brain was just numb after just one day. The course was run at Horsham, by a Christian organisation. It is to train new Newscrews for Hope 08 with UCB Television. The news programmes start to go out on air from April 1st.
We learn`t EVERYTHING about being on a News Crew. My team was made up of me and no-one else! I am the only one who is a `one man band`.
The training covered everything from being a reporter, Health and Safety, Consent forms, Vox Pops (interviewing passers by on the street like on a news report), How to prepare a camera, lighting, arranging a shot etc. This is only the tip of the iceberg.
One tip that I learned and I`m giving you for free is this When you are interviewing someone and it is a medium to close-up shot. Make sure that when you look into the person's eyes that you are filming to see that sparkle. You need to line up the camera in such a way that you see a bright dot in each eye. This makes the eyes come to life and makes the person more interesting. If the dot in each eye isn`t there then you`ve done something wrong and it won`t get the audience`s attention. It make them dull and life-less. When you next watch the news or even Eastenders or Emmerdale, look into the eyes, you will see what I`m talking about.
I`m still recovering from it all. I was given a partner on the course, he was from another UK country (I won`t mention it ), but we just didn`t get on and I had to ask him to repeat everything because I didn`t understand. When I started to say something, he would just but in halfway through my sentence CRAZYMAN) So I just let him get on with it and ignored him. Because of this we didn`t get much finished practical done. The practical was good as on one occasion we went down to the town centre and filmed interviews with people (Vox Pops).
Be good guys and thank your lucky stars that you don`t live in (woops, nearly said the country!) He was from Fife
Be good.
Bye
Stingman
I have just come back from an intense training course. The course was from wednesday to sunday, 7.00am to 10.30pm! My brain was just numb after just one day. The course was run at Horsham, by a Christian organisation. It is to train new Newscrews for Hope 08 with UCB Television. The news programmes start to go out on air from April 1st.
We learn`t EVERYTHING about being on a News Crew. My team was made up of me and no-one else! I am the only one who is a `one man band`.
The training covered everything from being a reporter, Health and Safety, Consent forms, Vox Pops (interviewing passers by on the street like on a news report), How to prepare a camera, lighting, arranging a shot etc. This is only the tip of the iceberg.
One tip that I learned and I`m giving you for free is this When you are interviewing someone and it is a medium to close-up shot. Make sure that when you look into the person's eyes that you are filming to see that sparkle. You need to line up the camera in such a way that you see a bright dot in each eye. This makes the eyes come to life and makes the person more interesting. If the dot in each eye isn`t there then you`ve done something wrong and it won`t get the audience`s attention. It make them dull and life-less. When you next watch the news or even Eastenders or Emmerdale, look into the eyes, you will see what I`m talking about.
I`m still recovering from it all. I was given a partner on the course, he was from another UK country (I won`t mention it ), but we just didn`t get on and I had to ask him to repeat everything because I didn`t understand. When I started to say something, he would just but in halfway through my sentence CRAZYMAN) So I just let him get on with it and ignored him. Because of this we didn`t get much finished practical done. The practical was good as on one occasion we went down to the town centre and filmed interviews with people (Vox Pops).
Be good guys and thank your lucky stars that you don`t live in (woops, nearly said the country!) He was from Fife
Be good.
Bye
Stingman