Guest speaker / group speaker / interview production
Be aware of interviewee / group enthusiasm. Feel free the coach your talent into better takes. They will appreciate you for it.
Be aware of your job, and others' job on the shoot (helps catch mistakes)
Be aware of ambient sound and how it is impacting shoot (second take, move location)
Dress the set, indoors AND out (windows, garbage cans
Be aware of your job, and others' job on the shoot (helps catch mistakes)
Be aware of ambient sound and how it is impacting shoot (second take, move location)
Dress the set, indoors AND out (windows, garbage cans
Talking Heads production
Be and Do
Be enthusiastic
Be clear and articulate; accentuate consonants; make yourself easy to understand
Be natural for you
Avoid
Avoid robotic delivery
Avoid rushed delivery or, if you're a producer, rushing your talent
Avoid spiking of volume in your delivery
Be enthusiastic
Be clear and articulate; accentuate consonants; make yourself easy to understand
Be natural for you
Avoid
Avoid robotic delivery
Avoid rushed delivery or, if you're a producer, rushing your talent
Avoid spiking of volume in your delivery
Talking Heads shooting:
Equipment checklist:
Talking Heads crew:
- Two DSLR cameras
- Two 50 mm lenses
- Two tripods
- One H4n recording unit (with ear buds)
- Two Lav Mics
- Script (at least two copies)
- One diffuser
Talking Heads crew:
- Director (can be camera 1 as well)
- Camera 1
- Camera 2
- Sound
- Script supervisor
- Key Grip
Visioning and Designing the Video Bulletin
How can we be more informative and entertaining?
How can we embody greater efficiency?
- Use a Go-Pro for 1st person cam, giving more exciting perspective
- Clever well-written PSAs, addressing the matter well AND be comedic/entertaining
- Crack jokes here and there, make more interesting skits
- Have more fun creating the VB
- Make fun of ourselves before others (a la S Brule?)
- We should make short daily bulletins instead of weekly. Some would be pure entertainment
- Focus on a core each week, updates on what they're doing
- To provide a faster and more entertaining means of informing students of events
- To inform students about what is going on, when forms are due for clubs sports JC etc
- Because it is a better and entertaining way of getting the news
- To inform students about school events and get the students more hyped about school
- So people know what's happening in their community
- Because it is a fun, exciting, unique feature that is beneficial to the school
How can we embody greater efficiency?
- We can run everywhere we go and talk as fast as possible while on camera
- By getting easier material for students -- professional people that can help with production
- We can't ose the message in a skit
- By having a mandatory time after school where broadcast students have to work
- We can advertise more PSAs about what's going on at school
- Divide into teams for each part of the video
- Concise editing and content
- Some kind of poll to see what people would change
- By working to together and contributing all our ideas and keeping an open mind
- We could create specialized jobs
- We should take feedback from the students to improve
Professionalism
- The soft skill of professionalism is more difficult than the hard skills of technology
- Familiarity with our friends makes this more difficult than a job setting. We need to regard working alongside friends as a professional challenge. Many people don't understand this.
- Caring for equipment: security, bringing equipment back on time, taking constant inventory (where? and what parts?)
- Production hierarchy: segment production, episode production, executive production (unpacked under resources)
- If you have an idea: "Can I make a suggestion?"
- Let the established editor do her/his job. Do not sit down at an open project and begin editing for that person, unless there has been clear communication
- Acknowledge there are different styles: don't assume that if someone is more quiet, that they don't have established, excellent ideas. The sooner you learn this the better you'll
- If you want to have a lot of input in a project, BE a segment producer.
- In production time, do not be idle. Pitch a segment. At the very least, ask for work.
- Keep complaining about clients and each other to a minimum. Be direct and constructive (advise an alternative). Seek Mr K's counsel if there are issues.
feedback for talking heads, in general
Keep shooting with 50mm
Going for just right amount of spontaneity and attention to the detail of the announcement
No two shots unless there is dialog and exchange. Silent sitting in is distracting. No clowning.
Text reinforcement is a must
Camera person needs to be watching camera at all times (NOT the talent), to ensure shot is good (notice mics, diffusers entering shot, bad background, etc)
Going for just right amount of spontaneity and attention to the detail of the announcement
No two shots unless there is dialog and exchange. Silent sitting in is distracting. No clowning.
Text reinforcement is a must
Camera person needs to be watching camera at all times (NOT the talent), to ensure shot is good (notice mics, diffusers entering shot, bad background, etc)
making good video out of boring guest speakers
b-roll, b-roll, b-roll
color correction
insert lower third information
add music
ask for retakes so information is conveyed more efficiently (same meaning, fewer words)
color correction
insert lower third information
add music
ask for retakes so information is conveyed more efficiently (same meaning, fewer words)
feedback for intro
themed intro through animation, addition of AfterEffects, stock footage blending
too much special f/x
too much special f/x
feedback for student on the street
Keep audio local to the speaker / handheld mic
feedback for weather
The scripts are getting more intentional and the humor is more focused
Coordinated outfits a definite plus
Coordinated outfits a definite plus
feedback for credits
Begin bloopers sooner, so teachers won't turn off VB, because they think the credits are boring
feedback for editing
Don't fade on action when people are still talking, action still happening