television evaluation

We had to produce a television package on Christmas shopping in Farnham. After previously working on a TV set during a lesson, I had minimal experience to create the package but after working with the editing software and the radio equipment, similarities could be made so I could work effectively to complete the package.

My TV package contained a voice over, images of the surroundings, interviews, a vox pop and two pieces to camera. I managed to do all of these and edit them into a minute television package. All of these were enjoyable, especially as I intend on specialising in TV. I managed to find the vox pop difficult in comparison to radio, purely due to the way our package was planned out.

A vox pop didn’t entirely fit into my plan yet I managed to alter it so that the answers given from the public were relevant to the section of work I produced, and it even emphasised some of the comments made before. However, I asked a person to be interviewed and she did not want to be filmed, this was perfect for the vox pop piece whilst I initially thought it would have been a difficult situation.

This then lead to a piece to camera that summarised the events, I thoroughly liked speaking publicly to the camera on my own as I could improvise and use my own style of speaking to try to impact upon our viewer. The voice over work was simple to edit as I had an idea of speaking over a sequence of images we shot across the surroundings during our interviews. Improvements could have been made to the quality of shots and camera work with more practice.

Furthermore, I can compare television writing to radio quite well. The script for a radio story is much less difficult in my opinion as when I wrote the extra material for television I found that I had to include different technical terms and possibly shots to indicate what would happen for the person reading it. Yet I also believe working for television was much harder as you need to focus on much more than just your voice, the presentation of the person on camera along with basic things like how to hold the microphone so that it isn’t interrupting the vision of the camera.

I found television writing very different to print but equally interesting, television writing has to be shorter and more “punchy” whereas print work needs to contain more information and in greater detail. Though I can draw comparisons to introduction writing for print and a news story for television.