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In our lesson we decided to film our news bulletin scene, in which a news bulletin would be carried out announcing a tsunami. At first we decided on making a cardboard TV, however after considering this we decided upon it as being rather childish and we soon discarded this idea, after deciding upon taking a more serious approach we had to consider a set for the scene. After discussing options we approached the Head and asked to use his office as we felt that his office was the most similar to a news set, however when we tried filming in there we found that the lighting was not right so after this we used another room within school which had much better lighting and the use of a few minor props that are symbolically associated with news bulletins (laptop, papers, desk and chair) we were able to create a set that could be associated with a news show.
When filming we varied the light by controlling the amount of natural light coming into the room and we also used additional lights around the news reader to add to the mise en scene. We used a digital camera along with a tripod, when filming this shot we only used one type of shot as this scene will be shown on a TV screen within one of our other clips and will play a part within the mise en scene.
Overall I am happy with our progress today and on Monday we will continue with our film making. On Monday we will need to gather a cast for the piece and will need to sort out costumes for some characters.
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