On Friday 15th February 2013 it was a practice day for
If you don’t already know, BBC
School report is a day where schools
around the UK
produce a school news show for the BBC and publish it on their school website.
Instead of filming the standard Wyvern TV format we decided
to do a new style where we all sat around a table and discussed topics in the
news.
We started off the day with a meeting where we decided who
was doing what jobs and who was reporting on what and then at 10:30am we
started filming. This continued for the next 2 hours. Unfortunately we didn’t
realise that the microphone James was wearing was turned all the way up. This
meant that even when we reduced the volume of his voice in post-production it
was still extremely muffled and almost impossible to understand.
Nevertheless we kept James and his lines in the show but
they sound disappointing due to the technical difficulties.
Since we had a strict timescale to finish the episode
everything wasn’t perfect meaning that we hadn’t checked through it all which
unfortunately meant that the transitions are not smooth and there are random
bits where nobody is sure what is going on.
Despite all of these problems the format and set of the show
were outstanding, everyone knew in detail what they were reporting on and
almost everybody was extremely comfortable on screen.
In conclusion, all the Wyvern team learnt a lot from this
practice news day and our filming skills will be perfected by the actual school
report day in March.
