Friday, 10 February 2017

Trip to Berlin

On the 3rd of February 2017 I went on a trip to Berlin, Germany.

During the trip we visited the Berlin Film Museum and a Television Studio. I gained a lot of skills, knowledge and experience from this trip. In the Berlin Film Museum we learnt about the history of film and how it has adapted. We learnt about the different editing techniques and CGI that has developed since the start of films.

In the TV Studio, our tour guide, Christina, taught us about the history of television and the industry, and I learnt how there was a time where nobody really watched TV because of the War that happened. Furthermore we learnt about how green screens and blue screens can be used in order to create an artificial atmosphere to suit the type of programme that you are creating. The TV studio we went to is the second largest television studio in Berlin. There are thousands of cameras which are hung from the ceiling when recording a live show which capture every angle and composition of screen. I learnt that live shows don't fully go onto air directly, they go on a few seconds later because hundreds of editors are sitting at their seats waiting to crop out something inappropriate that and audience member or host might say. The editors have a large separate room and have different types of controls everywhere. They can cut off a scene of the camera and stop one recording if they want to.
We also learnt that shows that are based in the studio are not a real place. Most of the mise-en-scene is created out of wood or cardboard and there is a secret alleyway that the audience members have to come through.






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