BBC School Report Practice Day

On Friday 15^th February 2013 it was a practice day for BBC School report.

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.