On the 11th of September, our Creative and Media class went on a trip to the BBC to film some videos and learn new skills. We took a bus and two trains to get to the BBC and when we finally got there, we were amazed! Especially me and Cheyenne who got a bit too amazed and started thinking that celebrities had sat on all the chairs.
After we had waited to get out tags that told everyone at BBC that we were students doing a filming course, we went up to a room and sat on some chairs while three people who worked at the BBC. After about 5 minutes, one of the men that were standing by a computer, put on an episode of Eastenders and we had to say "cut" every time there was a different camera angle. Once we had watched for a bit, our trainer gave us all cameras and equipment and we set them up. We had to get into groups and in my group were Cheyenne, Beth, Farah and Kai. Then we got some sheets for planning but whilst we were planning, he came up to use and said that our group wasn't creative! We all got very mad but carried on with our work anyway even though we were put down.
After we had planned, we took our camera down to the cafe garden and set it up. We decided to choose the title, "The Woman Who Fell To Earth". We casted parts, Kai was the woman who fell to Earth, Beth was a news reporter, me and Cheyenne were being interviewed by Beth and Farah did a lot of filming and holding the microphone. The first scene was Beth talking about how the woman had fallen and we had a clip of Kai jumping off a bench but our brilliant angle made it look like she was falling from the sky. After that, Beth did an interview, with me and Cheyenne and then finally, Beth did an ending where she closed the news report.
We then went back to the room where we had obtained our cameras, and started to transfer our clips, to a computer. When they had finished, we went downstairs and ate our lunch finally since we were all extremely hungry. After lunch, we went upstairs and started to edit our films. our trainer, split our group up so I edited with Beth whilst Cheyenne, Farah and Kai edited on a separate computer.
After about ten minutes, our trainer called us to a computer so he could show us how to edit on the computer. He used a clip of a man and when he paused it, the man's face was in a weird position and everyone started laughing, especially Alex who had to be taken out of the room to calm down. Me and Cheyenne didn't really need to know how to edit on the movie maker called Ulead Videostudio 11 because we both have Ulead at home but our trainer made us watch it anyway.
After we had watched him editing, we went back to edit our own movies. It took a while but we finally finished! We showed our trainer and he said that our camera angles weren't very good! He put us down again but we still continued. Then we watched a few movies but not all of them and then we said our farewells to everyone and got back on the train to go home.
It was rather good experience and we had a semi-good day. The filming was fun but I didn't like the way we were put down twice in the same day! Other than that, it was a cool experience and I would like to go back to the BBC again soon!
Gina, signing out! xxx
1 comment:
I like the way your post has a sense of humour to it - it makes fun reading!
You've given a lot of good detail about what you achieved and how, which is exactly what you need to be doing for your Media blogs, so well done. That's excellent.
I'm glad you enjoyed the day and didn't let the criticism get you down. The best way to handle critique is to use it to your advantage to make your work better; next time someone says your work isn't up to scratch ask them how to improve it and put THEM on the spot!
Keep up the good work Gina.
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