Saturday, March 6, 2010
Teaching
I spent this week teaching what I know and a little bit of perfecting it. I plan to be fair and give all the anchors a chance to be on camera in my production. To do so, They must all know how to produce a package which includes writing scripts, getting camera shots and editing with avid. This week we started with avid. To properly teach someone to edit anything with motion, you must first know it very well yourself. So I spent a day learning certain cuts, splices, and trims I didn't know. One other producer, our director and myself sat with the reporters and anchors for this newscast and taught them the necessary tools for avid.
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What was it like being on the other side and teaching?
ReplyDeleteDid you find that you learned it better than you ever would have just doing it on your own?
What are SOTs by the way? (it wouldn't let me comment on the last post)
It is interesting. There is one other intern particularly having issues. She acts ditsy but she's really lazy. It's difficult teaching someone who doesn't want to learn. But it makes more sense to me now. Everything. when teaching someone how to use Avid you learn all the small things you didn't realize you didn't know. And I'm definitley learning better this way. SOTs are just sound over tape. sound bites. We use them with VOs. Most often we write VOSOTs or packages. VOSOTs are reporter's voice over a track including bites from interviews (SOTs) and packages include VOSOT, standup, and tags. A standup in an on cam intro to the story. The tag can be on cam or off and it is the exit.
ReplyDeleteIt won't let me comment on your most recent post, so I will do it here.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure the camera work was fine at the protest!
Are you finding that you're becoming a control freak about your work?
And how did the students respond to you as young filmmakers covering the protests?
I look forward to seeing it all!