The short interview artefact brief was to interview on of the representatives candidates at the Student Union election. The questions asked was all fixed questions set by the clients and theses needed to be asked in the running time of a minute including an intro and an animated graphics including their name, the video also must be subtitled.
For this task I worked in a group of five and each member of the group had different roles. As the task was a live brief there was not much time for planning. That being so, as a group we had 30 minutes to look over our candidates manifesto and what they were running for. As a group we worked collaboratively and decided that three people would be charge of camera, sound and lighting and the other members took care of interviewing the candidate.
My role for this project was to set up three point lighting with the lighting kits for the set-up. Which includes key light, fill light and hair light. All lights were flooded to diffuse light which helped decrease intensity and harshness (Kindem 2009) to give the set a bright but not harsh light. In conclusion, the candidate was properly illuminated in an effective way so that it was pleasing to the eyes due to correct use of 3-point lighting. This resulted in a more professional artefact rather than an unpleasant piece which lacked creativity and professionalism.
Health and safety never came as an issue for this task. Although we was working in a studio situation all the low hazards was took into account and the risks was reduce such as placing rubber mats over wires to reduce the risk of crew and clients tripping.
Editing the interviews was the most challenging aspect of the artefact. The reason for this was we had a lot of footage of the client talking and it was difficult to choose what the most vital of the interview was. Also another difficult aspect of editing was creating a graphic as this aspect was very new to me therefore it was challenging learning new skills. However after successfully creating one with a little bit of help, I now feel confident in creating my own graphics for any future projects.
Overall, this artefact has been selected because it was a good group project that shows collaborative work as well as showing a good understanding of media production skills.
Bibliography:
Kindem, G (2009). Introduction to media production: the path to digital media production. 4th ed. London: Focal Press-M.U.A. pg’s 241, 225.
