Week 7 - Piece to Camera

This weeks exercise was to practise a piece to carmera. The folliwng is the narration of my piece to camera that took place during a check in for a Virgin Australia flight at work.

Good afternoon, I’m Anna Bielenberg. Today we are here at the Rockhampton Aiport for the check in of Virgin Australia flight 1245 to Brisbane. This aricrraft has a scheduled departure time of four fifty five pm. To my right I have four check in staff all very busy. I’m told this aircraft is a full boeing 800 so there is a large que of people consistenly flowing through the checkin counters. To my left, I have the self serve kiosk also with a steady flow of passengers checking through.

The crowd here today all seem very happy to be getting away on an Easter Break. The corwd consisits of a variety of people from family with children to young people and the elderly all eager to get out of Rockhampton on a holiday or returning home.

Reflection on exercise: I enjoyed this exercise and felt it was a good way to feel comfortable in front of a camera as well as feel comfortable talking in front of people around you. I felt that the biggest issue for me to overcome was the talking (what felt like to myself) in front of a whole heap of other people that I do not know. The people at the airport had no idea what I was doing, with just myself and one other following me with the mobile phone. There is such a difference to doing recordings  in front of you laptop webcam with the comfort of privacy then to actually doing them. This exercise was a good onefor me to begin to overcome this awakerward feeling I get when I have to talk away into a camera and have people around me have no idea what I am doing! I feel that I strated to get the hang of it after a couple of takes!