Currently in our pilots for the School Report we have just being doing simple push ins/zoom in's, a shot of the outside of the building fading in to the push in of the anchors and sometimes a barely moving wide shot . My question is, what 'creative' shots could we try out?
No jib but we do have clip on wheels for our fluid head tripods and a walkway at first floor level, so it gives about a 180 degree view of the set from a higher angle, if that helps?
Currently in our pilots for the School Report we have just being doing simple push ins/zoom in's, a shot of the outside of the building fading in to the push in of the anchors and sometimes a barely moving wide shot . My question is, what 'creative' shots could we try out?
Dan
Something I haven't seen done before is 'live titles'. Take Lookaround for example, on Lookaround their titles feature school children writing, a car passing by the camera etc. Why don't you do those things live? A similar idea was done on Emmerdale LIVE, so it can be achieved if executed correctly. Maybe use talkback loop to talk to the different ob's for each 'shot' in the titles?
We can't do anything live unless the BBC send a crew, the standard thing is a recorded bulletin, then if the BBC choose our school, they'll send a multi camera crew to give up the live capability. If we recorded them as live, it would be okay, right?
I'm amazed this "School Report" thing is still going really - it's kind of like Newsround's Press Pack got totally out of control. It's great for the schools involved I'm sure, but not sure how it really benefits the BBC or the licence fee payer.
It isn't to benefit the BBC, its to get children interested in journalism and broadcasting and also it is a new way to help children in the understanding of classwork, by creating a new report rather than copying from a textbook or a PowerPoint (which is also on its way out!!)
Crikey, PowerPoint is on the way out? I bet today's children haven't even seen a blackboard in their lives. When I left school a decade ago mine was only just beginning to invest in interactive whiteboard technology. It was always "chalk and talk" for me.
Yep! Blackboards (or chalkboards as they have to be called!!) are still around, just aren't a fixture in every classroom, though a teacher can wheel one in. Now we're moving over to SMART Notebook (a massive blank canvas for the interactive board where dynamic active elements can be put alongside work), Glow and RM Unify (Email and Sharing Resources), Interactive Whiteboards, Plasma's and Tables, Prezi's (New way of presenting) and tablets (so the teacher can present from the side of the class or the back etc)
Do you mean use the walkway?