Nisserin Bessioua - UCA Television Production

When shooting the trailer for the show, Ellen and I knew what we wanted from the shoot and were prepared with our shot list and scripts. We'd worked out what order we were going to film our shots in to make the most of the time we had as we were filming outside and had animated amount of daylight.  For this shoot we had the same crew as the opening titles shoot (Troy on camera and Sammi on sound), who both had been briefed on what we were filming. We had 4 actors (Imogen, Laura, Rosie and Sam from second year) on this shoot so we had to make sure that everyone knew what they we doing when and keep everyone organised.  We went through our shot list relatively quickly with the team working really well together, crew and actors. The was strong communicated throughout the whole shoot and we had some time left at the end which allowed Sammi to recorded some more atmosphere sounds and we also gave Troy the option to film some of his own shots that went listed on our s...

After doing the test shoot for the opening titles, Ellen and I knew what we wanted it to look like and if what we wanted to do would work. This was good because we were filming with the presenter George and we wanted to make sure we were completely organised and ready for the day.  We booked our equipment and collected it the day before our shoot day, this was so we could make sure batteries were charged and that everything was working before the day. Doing this made the shoot so much easier, especially at the beginning of the day with the set up of the equipment as we knew everything was working and ready to go.  All crew members including myself and Ellen, the camera operator Troy and Sammi who was recording the sound for us arrived an hour and a half before we started shooting as we wanted to allow for enough time to set ups the equipment, do the necessary checks and make sure everything was working for when the presenter arrived. We also had Sam stand in as an ...

In our masterclass with Del Brown, we got some hands-on experience with the cameras, learning and experimenting with the filming styles of live TV as there are different techniques needed to film a live show. We looked at focusing and how during a live show, there isn't lots of time to spend on focussing cameras and framing so you have to be able to get your shots quickly and make sure they're clean and sharp shots.  We practised this by having all 5 cameras set up and splitting into five groups. We had a few people stand in as the subjects and the aim was to keep our focus and framing while they moved, at first walking in straight line and then making it more difficult by walking in a zig zag. I found this quite challenging at first because it was quite hard to control the focus and the framing size at the same time. When checking the focus after the move, it looks good in the viewfinder on the camera but when we zoomed in to check, often the shot was ve...