Week 2

The second week of getting ready for the kids show has been pretty busy for me. Ive been trying to come up with segments for the live show and also try to organise my insert for the green show. With coming up with segments for the live show, ive been trying to think of way to incorporate the kids with the segments so they're not just sitting and watching, they're actually involved. So ive thought of things like having a quiz with a few of the kids and getting a couple of kids involved with the midnight snack which is the cooking segment. Ive still got along way to go but i have a very rough outline of what will happen in the show. For my insert i wanted to do something fairly exciting so i came up with the idea at first to do an insert on planes out at rex. When i called up they were a bit reluctant and they didnt have planes that stayed on the ground for a long time which would make shooting difficult. I then started talking to someone whos husband is going for their helicopter licence and she told me about water bombing planes and helicopters. So i talked to her husband and made some phone calls and did some research and eventually set up an insert at heliair at the airport. They have water bombing helicopters most of the year unlike planes that go wherever the most danger of fire is and there isnt much danger of fire in wagga. So i ran my idea by the producer and now i just have to organise the crew the person to interview and the actor. Fridays class was also very helpful in preparing for the kids show. The thing that was most helpful was the camera movements during interviews and moving to different locations. Thats probably the hardest job for the director, setting up a camera plan and calling shots during interviews and ad libs. One thing i did notice that seemed really hard was operating the boom. It might have been the way we were set up but it seemed hard having such a short time to move the boom between locations fast enough so that when the director cut people werent talking without sound. That was just something i noticed while doing staging.