Week 4 Friday Meeting

Wow! It's nearly the middle of the year! That is amazing. We have committed to at least 10 episodes this year to accommodate all the year 8s who were keen to anchor. We are working on Episode 4 this Friday and it is nearly June so I think we are making great progress. It's natural that we would go more slowly in the first term while we are getting used to Wave TV and new classes. Soon we will be like pros!

It was great to work out who needs or wants to get better at what skills last week. Milly, Hayden and Ben were at Writer's Group at that time so can add their names on Friday. I liked the way people used the list to select crews who had less experience in that area, such as camera work and directing. It'd be great sometime to go over our job descriptions as I think they need updating. You will have a better idea of what you do in each role than I do.

Ok, organisation for this week. Let's get Episode 4 as close to complete as possible.

• Editing. Lots of it. We need to timetable ourselves so people are editing their stories in 40 min blocks all day.  
• We'll also need a general editing crew for credits and titles- perhaps Milly and Ryan after morning tea? Or Hayden and Ben? 
• Filming- Anchors only I think, but there may be more. After morning tea?
• Louis and Adam- where will you film? Will you green screen or be somewhere around the school?
• Who were the crew for the Anchor filming? Was it Troy and Isaac?

Anything else? Add it below. Please remember to write in a comment below to let me know you've read the blog post. Thanks and see you on Friday. Caroline.

Hmm, I wonder what stories these pictures are from?

Week 3 Term 2 Friday Meeting

Hi Everyone,
I was really impressed with the way you smoothly organised yourselves last Friday. We achieved a lot because of that. Well done!

• This Friday we need to fully complete Episode 3. We are so close! 

Episode 4 Filming Friday
Reporters need to choose locations to suit your stories. Think about wind sound, people sound and light/ shadows. Let me know where you will film in a comment below.

• Louis and Adam- Practise, practise and practise your lines so they are smoooooth and natural :)

Friday's To Do List

• View Episode 3 & critique.
• Organise what we need to do to finish it.
• Practice Episode 4 with Anchors and Reporters.
• Plan the day's editing and filming.
• Chenthi & Kai- you have your own morning plan?
• Get scripts, locations and reporters ready for filming.
• Film anchors and stories- times are on most scripts.
• Download footage straight into the computer. Delete from the camera. Put the camera on charge.

We need to delete lots of old footage off the cameras. Are there any volunteers for this? Write in a comment if you are keen, otherwise I will select some deleters.

What stories are these from?

Week 2 Term 2 2013

17th May Friday Meeting

Welcome back to our first week of Wave TV after the holidays! I hope you all had a great break and have settled back into school really well.

To Do this Friday-

• Complete Episode 3. All the stories are finished. Yay! Well done.

Amber and Lucia need to edit the anchors.

Editors (Chenthi and Emma?) need to overview and check the entire episode for sound levels, colour, cropping, transitions, smoothness, quality etc.

• Work on Episode 4

Louis and Adam need to script the anchor segment for Episode 4 once we have finalised all the stories and the order they will be in.

We will organise who needs to do what else at our morning meeting, after we watch and critique Episode 3.

We'll spend the rest of the day working through our task list.

We won't work on any stories for Episode 5 today.

Organisation:

• Roll
• Watch Episode 3 so far.
• Critique- what more needs to be done to Episode 3?
• Organise Episode 4. Make a task list.
• Work through the task list.

 Here are some photos the belong to stories from Episode 3. I wonder if you can tell what the stories might be about?