Concordia Reports Backstage

Our last show is online! Watch Backstage, a special edition of Concordia Reports. In this show I was the packager, which means that I was responsible for assembling all the stories and the intros together into one 20-minute piece, checking the sound levels, creating the opening and end credits, the bumpers (that involves finding the graphics, images and music for them.) I also shot the final story (the trapeze lesson,) the interview with the firebreather and part of the interview with the ice skaters.

We were very lucky to be able to shoot the hosting part at the TOHU, without even paying. This was a great experience and I had a lot of fun spending about 20 hours in the editing room (although I definitely won’t pursue editing as a career!)

However I’m a bit frustrated by our technical limitations. Our teacher asks us to be creative in terms of format and content, but we’ve always been trained as reporters and nothing else. We have been taught very basic lighting techniques, we know almost nothing about camera work and we don’t know how to arrange a set, for example. Moreover, we’re very limited in terms of the equipment we can use, although this equipment is available to Communications students. The hosting, for example, was shot with wireless mics only, whereas a broom would have been greatly appreciated. As a results the show is often very cheesy, but I think it’s as could as it could be.

Enjoy!