Middlesex Now show

I was a VT Supervisor for the second 'Middlesex Now' show, which requires a lot of responsibilities and time. I learnt a lot whilst partaking on the role of VT Supervisor, a few things I already knew and a lot that I have taken on board. 

The 'Middlesex Now' shows are based on the current affairs happening around Middlesex University campus. The second show was based on the Raise And Give (RAG) student society, which plays a big part within the University. We got Sophie McKay, the President of the RAG society to be part of one of the VT's and even got her in the show as one of our guests. Our second topic was on the Artist, Kelvin Okafor who graduated from Middlesex University and he drew amazing lifelike portraits of ordinary people and celebrities using only pencil and charcoal. The third VT to finish off the show was a prank VT consisting of Frankie Checkley dressed up as Ronald McDonald the clown, going around the University campus trying to capture some of the student's funny reactions.

The role of VT Supervisor involved a number of different things; I had to make sure that everyone who was a camera operator had the correct tutorials and that they filmed on the right format. After all the filming was done and all the XD cam disks were handed to the correct editors, I would make sure that all the footage was imported into Avid Media Composer, as I learnt from the VT Supervisor for the first show because she had trouble with one of her VT's not being imported properly and suffered the consequences of all the footage from that VT being erased. Once all the footage have been imported into Media Composer properly, I can then begin to sit down with the editors and the directors from the location shoots and talk about how they wanted the finished product. Sitting with the editors gave them the chance to ask me any questions or if they needed any assistance I would be there to help them. After all three edits were completed I ran them by the VT Producer, Director and our tutor to see if anything needed changing. The completed edit will then be exported back to the XD cam disc with all the timings of the VT's written accompanying the disc for the VT Operator.

There were a few problems I encountered whilst supervising, the Directors from the shoots were not there whilst I was working with the editors, which was difficult as we had nothing to work with so I just went with my own initiative and just edited the VT's my way and informed the VT Producer and Director of the show what was going on. As I am new also new to Avid Media Composer, there was a lot that I did not know, like colour grading for example so I had to get one of the technicians to help me. Next time I would make sure that the location Directors will be with me whilst editing and that I improve my knowledge on using Avid Media Composer before I start any editing.