Talk with Sara

In her chat show, Sara interviews two astronauts who've recently returned from Mars.

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Duration: 2:25
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Says teacher Mr. McClintock:

The girls wanted to make a film about space travel. But given that the school has yet to start a space programme they decided that a chat show format would be a good idea to relay their facts from the ‘mission’. They used a variety of encyclopedias and the BBC Focus magazine for information.

This is a textbook example of how to film an interview. Count the shots:

  1. the wide, showing the three actors and their relationship to each other
  2. Close-up of the presenter, Sara.
  3. The guest astronauts, in what’s called a ‘Two Shot.’

With a real chat show you’d do this by running three cameras at once, but my guess is that the team have performed the scene once for each camera position, and then edited between them to produce a seamless flow of finished film. It’s so well done, you don’t notice the technical details at all.

In fact, it’s all made to look so effortless, it’s easy to overlook the amount of information in the film. There’s lots crammed in here, and barely a line fluffed.

A technical tour de force, then. Great stuff.

Hi thanks so much for all the great comments. Ive just had a really bad day and these comments have made me feel really happy. Thank you so much and I reccomend scicast to anyone who wants to try it. Good luck!
Niamh, 14 Dec 2009

hello,iam nine years old. i absolutly loved your film . i liked the idea of making the whole thing into an interview. it was really cool
alice, 21 Sep 2009

OMG! I'm the one on the far right and we all live in Scotland and I really wanted to sound normal but surprise surprise, my wierd english accent (weird because I'm bot English?!) came out. But apart from that I loved making the film and had really good fun with 2 of my best friends.
Niamh, 07 Apr 2009

hi you guys i'm now in the sencondary school and i did a space film last year space balloons i was an alien and i think ours was gr8
anna, 25 Jan 2009

Wow, thats briliant, I am eighteen and I am not into this kinda stuff, but wow, that blew me away, you three little palies were great, I know you have a real talent jst waiting to burst, you were all so good, my whole family thinks this is the best video on the SciCast website! You all have the talent that film Diretors want and NEED! you are so good and I absolutley loved it! Jemma x
Jemma, 25 Jan 2009

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