Monday 23 January 2012

Time Report - Filming in the Set

Last week was very exciting here at Signals as we constructed an amazing futuristic TV Studio gallery in our workshop space! It's taken many weeks for the children at Perryfields Junior School to collect all sorts of recycled bits and bobs and turn them into wall panels and boards for our TV Show gallery. It took two days for the set to be put together and we think the final result looks fantastic!
Four children from the Time Report group were asked to come to Signals on Tues 17th Jan and film some of the last scenes for their film about a news show set in a space station 80 years in the future. The children were Jacob, who plays 'Trent', the ever-exasperated director, James, who plays 'Sparky' our trusty technician and Lewis, whose character 'Max' is our news anchorman. Jack (who is James' twin brother) was also asked to come along and be our camera op for the day and got some great close ups of Sparky tinkering around with the set.


Below are Lewis and Jack who were setting up where Trent the Director would be sitting. We used an old edit suite as the control panel which Trent uses to cue up different clips and adjust sound levels. The idea of using old equipment came from the children who decided that in the future, we will have run out of oil to make plastics. Therefore, all technology will have to be run on old machines that have been upgraded.

The children worked really hard to get all the shots done in time and we all had a lot of fun building and filming in the set. We only have two more sessions of Time Report now to:

So there's still a lot of work to do!

See you on Tuesday 24th Jan everyone!