Filming the News Report

For our first scene, we had to film a News Report that would appear on the TV in the opening scene of our film. When looking for an actor for the minor role as a news anchor, Heather was able to get her friend Johnny to play the part and we booked out a variety of equipment from a green screen to lighting equipment. In order to use the green screen we booked out a camera that was able to have LED green lights placed around the lens. This reflected a green light onto the green screen behind Johnny so that when it came to editing, the background could be edited to another background. I felt that Johnny was the perfect person to act as the news anchor as he sounded and looked very professional. Although it took him a few attempts to correctly pronounce the difficult words when discussing Russian and Ukrainian issues, we finally got the scenes we wanted.

To create a different, more realistic background Alex and I went to film outside The Showroom Cinema and we stood the camera onto a tripod the film the view of traffic passing in front of the train station. We felt that this was a realistic background that would be seen on a typical news item.