Tang Soo Do - ID# 282
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Natural Audio News Package
Entry Description
A short news package on the Tang Soo Do karate program at the Courts Plus in Elmhurst, IL.
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- 2/24 10:16 am - Primary interview audio is bad; it sounds like you tried recording it with a built-in mic or on-camera shotgun microphone, and then had too much ambient noise, so you put an audio filter on it. Everyone's audio in the interviews sounds so compressed that it's like listening to someone talk into a metal box. Lighting on the interviews is inconsistent; you absolutely need to use lighting for any interviews you do, and you need to be consistent. The interview shots themselves should all be framed the same; at eye level. Some shots were looking up, some were eye level, some were looking down. The b-roll shots were good, showing a mix of wide shots, full shots, medium shots.
- 2/23 4:10 pm - Great conceptual open. Why did you go to black at :07? You should only go to black at the end of a story. Hitting black within a story is a roadblock to flow, or a speed bump at best. Same at :30. Could you have shot first bite with camera at eye-level? Ceiling lights increase backlighting, which you don’t want in this case. Plus, it’s usually not an appealing angle when it comes to viewing nostrils. Also, your subjects & reporters/anchors are your stars; don’t cut into their heads. :34 - horizon is downhill-left. Need transition from bites to b-roll at :36. Once you introduce the boy & girl sound bites on-camera, you don’t need to return to them on-camera until maybe near the end; their b-roll is more interesting than their talking heads. 1:11 - didn’t work; easy to see the primary source of light is coming from the left; turn him toward it. B-roll framing & audio quality are solid. Looked like lots of great b-roll was shot; could you not have stretched TRT to 2:00?
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