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Field Shooting for TV News: Lighting, Audio, and Storytelling Tips

Learn essential techniques for shooting TV news in the field, including lighting for news, audio recording, and crafting compelling stories. Discover guidelines for framing shots, shooting sequences, and conducting interviews.

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Field Shooting for TV News: Lighting, Audio, and Storytelling Tips

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  1. Chap. 4 Shooting TV news • Reader, VO, VO-SOT/VSV, package, wraparound/live shot • Reporters & photographers / live truck operator • “One Man Band” / VJ / backpack journalist • Assignment desk / producer • Feed to the station (more later) • Transmit / receive / line of sight • Receive station / newscast insertion • Field IFB (market size)

  2. Field shooting -- lighting for news • On camera light • Available light • Color temperature -- auto / indoor /outdoor • Never point a camera toward a light • 2-point / 3-point lighting • Low lighting situations -- iris / gain • “The art of capturing and controlling light”

  3. Field shooting -- audio for news • Close (isolated component) vs. distant miking • Foreground audio (narration, sound bites, stand up) • Nat sound (in camera mic) • Lavaliere, boom / shotgun, ‘stick’ • Other equiment • High pass, low pass, band pass, notch filters • EQ, compressor, other processing equipment

  4. Telling the news story live • What you know ./ don’t know • What happened, is happening, will happen • Storytelling -- beginning, middle, end • Focus of story • Who, what, when, where, why, how, so what • Balance of reporter voice and sound bites • PKG: 1:30 / VSV: 1:00 (SB :15)

  5. Backpack journalism • iPhone storytelling • Prosumer gear / GoPro camera • Quality lens and zoom issue • Task oriented sequence (see outline) • Script, Logging / EDL • Recording ‘track’ • Quicker editing • Instagram, Videolicious, etc • Quicker posting

  6. Chapter 4: the frame • Horizontal • Rule of Thirds • Golden Spots • Where our eyes go • Look space / lead room • Sometimes ‘break the rules’

  7. Some guidelines • Show viewers what you want them to see • Think before you shoot • Pre-visualize the shot and sequence • Elevate the ordinary • what you see in the viewfinder makes you say ‘wow,’ • Make good use of the entire screen • Balance, fill screen, background, lighting • No ‘dutch angle’ mistake • See several other tips on page 64

  8. Guidelines • Avoid calling attention to the zoom • ‘invisible’ zoom, pan, transition, lighting • SHOOT SEQUENCES • A proven method to heighten the viewer’s sense of involvement in the story is to shoot matched-action sequences.

  9. Guidelines • Shoot and move • Remember to help the editor avoid “pop cuts” • Anticipate action • Shoot only the shots you need -- Avoid indiscriminate shooting

  10. Edit in the camera • When you edit in the camera, it is important to concentrate on three shots at a time: the shot you’re taking, the shot you just took, and the shot you will take next. • ‘Visualize your production’ then capture those shots

  11. Guidelines • Involve the camera in the action • Working with people • tell your stories through people • Avoid distracting the subject • Because the camera and other hardware interrupt reality, try to avoid drawing attention to yourself or any of your equipment whenever you work with people. • Staging versus motivating

  12. Guidelines • Shooting news interviews • Process, sit-down, ‘non-interview’ interview • Shooting your stand-up • Safety / Distancing • Plan to Make Mistakes • Shakiness, color balance, audio, wrong filter, exposure (lighting), focus, contrast, composition, panning & zooming, wind, dead batteries, no recording media, protecting equipment

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