BA package script

BA Strike

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Plans for BA to strike have caused controversy between many people as there are fears over their Easter holidays being disrupted.

Not only this the cabin crew are also very worried about how the new reductions of staff could jeopardise their flight conditions.

I have been looking in more detail at the dispute.

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Passengers can now breathe a sigh of relief after it has been confirmed that British Airways cabin crew will not be disrupting travel plans over the busy holiday period.

Unite is expected to launch a series of low-level walkouts intended to cause only moderate disruption after the Cabin crew had been up in arms over plans to reduce staff on long-haul flights from 15 to 14.

British Airways has said thousands of staff have volunteered to work as Cabin crew throughout the strike but with many people planning to take an early Easter break the planned strike could threaten the very existence of BA.

VOX POP’S

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The Industrial action is set to take place at the end of March and may continue after the Easter break which intern could cost the airline 140million pounds.

Holly Moore, in Farnham for UCA News.

BA Package Final One

British Airways Strike Package

Spanish Snow Package

Our failed vox pop

So first of all we were left with the biggest, heaviest camera which managed to scare off everyone we asked to talk to. Then once we finally found someone who would answer our question about valentines day the camera decided to run out of battery. After trying about 6 different batteries and finding that none of them worked we were unable to get the tape out to edit what we had. Therefore the whole vox pop turned out to be a disaster! At least now we know to get first in the que to get the camera so we don't end up with the massive one that runs out of battery.

Television Christmas Package Evaluation

After our first attempt at creating a package and link on Christmas shopping failed due to lack of time, our camera running out of battery and no script we decided it would be best to try again.

This time we allowed ourselves enough time to get a script together and actually plan what we were going to do. As well as this we had time to edit our package and link until we were happy with it. My group and I decided we wanted to include more than we had managed to last time to make our package and link appear more realistic.

The whole group helped to write the script making sure we used short and simple sentences that would grab the audience’s attention. My main role was actually being in front of the camera and carrying out the interviews on screen. I spoke about Christmas offers in Boots and then interviewed different people who didn’t mind being on camera. This was quite difficult as hardly anybody wanted to be on camera and some people just ignored me when I asked if they would mind being interviewed. I also found it difficult when I didn’t know what I was meant to be saying so I learnt that if I read the script just before I am meant to say it and keep repeating it in my head it normally worked out well.

I also did a voice over which was placed over different clips of Farnham shoppers and decorations. I feel this worked well, however because there was a handover from Anna who was creating the link on camera, with the microphone quite far away from her. To me doing the voice over off camera, with the microphone right next to my mouth, the change in volume was quite dramatic. Next time I will not hold the microphone that close to my mouth.

As well as this I edited the package and link so that my voice over went with the images being shown on screen and any bits we messed up could be removed. I did the editing simply because I know how to use Premiere Pro and I was able to quickly cut and edit the bits we did or didn’t want. Nevertheless we did have a few technical difficulties as the computer kept breaking on us but after a few tries I eventually edited it and we all put it on our blogs.

Seeing as we had a second try most of things I would have done better we did in our new one although there are still a few things that could have been improved. For example, the filming of the Christmas decorations and Christmas shoppers wasn’t very good as the camera was not steady. I think we would also improve the volume problem we had in the handover from Anna to me. Another major thing that I would improve was the ending when I lift up my script and read from it as you can see it on screen and it doesn’t look very professional. Next time I will learn my script so I do not forget my line.

I noticed when writing the script for television we would write a bit then when I tried to read it back I would get all my words muddled or run out of breath. This was because when writing it we was writing how we would for print, detailed long sentences, with little punctuation. However because I kept reading it back we knew what bits didn’t work so we learnt to stick to short, simple sentences with lots of punctuation to make sure I had time to breathe and to slow down my speaking.

On a whole I feel that our second try at creating a package and link was quite successful and I was very proud of what we had managed to put together.

Radio- Vox Pop Evaluation

We created a Vox Pop in which we asked different people a question on Remembrance Day. As there were 5 people in my group each of us asked a different member of the public the same question and we recorded what each of them said.

The question we asked was ‘As you know it is Remembrance Day soon, do you think we should still be commemorating the deaths from the past wars or should we now be focusing on the deaths from the current war?’ Part of my role was to ask a member of the public if they would mind answering the question for us and if they didn’t, I then asked the above question and recorded their response.

This worked well however I feel that because our question was quite long some people we asked had to get us to repeat the question. If we had used a simpler straightforward question I think the people we asked would have understood it more easily. I also think that our question was quite limiting as some people only gave a yes or no answer and we had to ask them to elaborate on why they thought that.

Another part of my role was to edit the recordings we collected. For example, we didn’t need our question in the final Vox Pop we just needed he answers, therefore I cut out the bits we didn’t need so that all we has was five different peoples answers. Once we put the recording on to the computer I noticed that there was a slight sound issue with one of them, this was because the man we asked spoke very quietly and the microphone was obviously not held close enough to his mouth. I learnt that we should always check to make sure that you can hear what the person is saying before recording the whole thing even if it means asking them to speak a bit louder.

I feel that if we could do this again I would try to ask more people with a larger age range, as most of the people we managed to ask who didn’t mind being recorded were over 40. This would give more of a fair reflection of what the residents of Farnham felt and perhaps give a more interesting response as nearly everyone had the same view. I would also make the question simpler and more open so the people being questioned would understand what we were asking and be able to elaborate more on what they felt.

I feel that as a group we worked well and managed to get the task done. I do think we were successful as we completed what we were supposed to, however if we had more time and asked more people a simpler question, I do feel that our Vox Pop would have been better with a more interesting range of answers from the members of the public.