News Production Unit - Shoot Day (Shocktoberfest)

On the 18th October we were originally going to be filming the live interview and all of the cut aways for shocktoberfest but unfortunately on the way to the event I received an email from the press representative saying the interview was going to be postposed to a future date. Rather than forgetting the shoot we decided to treat this as a prime time to do a Recce. When arriving at the event we signed in at the guest visitors office and made our way in to scope the site and find important places to film and to do the interview. Once I got home I looked at the map and circled the places that would be great to do the interview.

We all decided that the best place would be in front of the press wall as it looked professional and very red carpet like. 

When we looked around the site we were able to get some cut aways as we still had the camera and try out some of the Haunt attractions so we knew what we were talking about when it came to the package and the live. 

We arrived at the location again yesterday after I rearranged the interview twice after visiting on the 18th. Once we got there we signed in again and then managed to meet with our press representative. We quickly set up as the person we were interviewing did not have a lot of time and we went straight into filming the live with no cuts. Once this was complete we needed to film my pieces to camera. Having been to the site before we all picked the locations that we knew were going to be ideal that had a good background and depth of field which were the cage and the ghost town. 

After several takes of this we moved onto filming more cut aways to make sure we had good coverage and then we called the shoot a wrap and headed home. Im very pleased with how the shoot went and feel my presenting and the camera work puts us in a good position for when I edit it together.