on & off screen management of props, setting & equiptment

I have found that During the process of filming an important shot or scene, many different areas have to be covered to organise and manage three different sectors to succesfull filming:

such as, management of props. basically this category could come under mise en seun. when filming our news programme we had to think of different priops to steriotype us as a typical news channel. this was just as simple as using a microphone for live interviews and wearing appropriate clothing, such as smart attire. In the news studio the props we had to use was a set of modern chairs and a table that would stand out from the background. also to give a more casual intelectual feel, we used a laptop and made sure the News 6 logo was visible at all times in the shot.

When covering our newws stories we found that different genres of news has to be filmed within similar settings relevant to the story you are hoping to broadcast. We covered three stories. the recession was filmed with shots of the public and outisde a bank, this is relevant to the genre it is covering and people can relate to it whilst watching. our sports interview was covered in sports room at the local barnsley college again setting a theme, and lastly our music interview was filmed at the main place in the area where live bands gig, thusw been instantly recogniseable to local viewers. Organising the different locations took lost of time and care ful planning, photos of locations were taken, as seen in posts on the blog. When we were happy wirth a setting we had to gain permission of the owner of the property or buiklding to film there. Other areas you must cover at the setting is, health and safety on the site and the safe installation of equiptment such as cameras, cables and microphones as the public could walk past in most locations and injure themselfs or damage equiptment.

equiptment management is very important. for this i had to plan when and where we would need the equiptment, and how we would get it there. to do this we set out a time plan and schedule to stick to and borrowed the equiptment out of the college media store in advance, giving us enought time to keep to our schedule and transport them in a car to the site we would be filming on. On sight management of equiptment would involve, protecting it from changes in weather and the public by using protectors and health and safety barriers and plenty on consistant communication with the crew. The settings of the equiptment was checked regular such as lighting, and white balance to record a natural looking shot.