On Friday the 1st of September some kids got an opportunity to go on a broad casting trip to Wellington, where we got to meet some people for a company called TAG. TAG is a place where we get to make some short but interesting movies using a green screen. The kids that got chosen are kids that might be passionate about drama and acting. We had to take the bus to Wellington, we did not have to pick up any other schools so the bus had lots of space.
When we got into the building, we all went up some stairs and sat in a room. Some people came and introduced themselves to us and said that they would show us some short videos that they made on the green screen. They looked so cool. After that they explained to us what we were going to be doing. They wanted to give us a tour of the green screen and were we allowed to go. Then they put us into groups of four or five and we had to work as a team to create a short video.
We got given some pieces of paper that said what the theme is going to be or a sentence that we had to add into our movies. We also got one prop that we had to use. My groups theme was time travel. Our sentence that we had to use was “We should try just one more time”. And the prop that we had was a coconut. At first my group struggled to try and make a story but then Miss Ardelle gave us some advice about time travel, then we were good to go.
After that some groups got to go and start acting and recording on the green screen. So while that was happening we had to wait in another room. When we were in that room one of the ladies for the company said that we had to be very quiet because there sound recorded picks up lots of sound and they don’t want to hear us in the background.
Then it was my group's turn, We finished earlier than all the rest of the groups because we did not have to keep on re shooting our movie. Then we all got called into the room and we got told that they would not let us see it because they still had to edit the movies and make some changes to the movies.
I think my group was good at trying to work as a team because when we had to brainstorm ideas we were all helping each other think about what can happen. I think my group was good at trying to act like what our character was feeling or if you were the lazy character you have to act lazy.
I think my group needs to work on trying to add more expression when we are talking. I think my group needs to work on trying not to get distracted and not play with whatever prop we have next time.
