Moving on, we used the edge of my partner's glass, dining table as our desk for the news broadcast, which gave us a more modern look to go with the idea that the problem is occurring present-day. Also, we forgot to ask our teacher for a tripod so we ended up making a tripod of our own with the help of many textbooks. On the table, my partner and I decided to include two identical mugs, two pieces of paper with identical information on it, and two of the same type of blue pens. All these elements were, of course, placed side-by-side of the table to mimic the layout of real news broadcasts.
As for the appearance that my partner and I took on, we decided on letting on hair down for the news broadcast due to the fact that it was not very common for female news anchors to have their hair tied up. Moreover, we both decided to wear blazers with a formal top underneath to capture the professional vibes of female news anchors. As for the makeup of our look, we decided to use a dark pink lipstick instead of a red lipstick.
In the raw footage above, as you can tell it was a little difficult getting the lines right for the both of us. However, the use of a teleprompter helped us tremendously in getting our lines right. We also ran into a few situations where my partner and I had some trouble staying serious to get our lines right, but in the end we ultimately were able to succeed in maintaining a serious tone when we talked about the problem of phones causing mass suicides. Furthermore, when me and my partner messed up our lines, by accident of course, we kept going because we knew that we could edit it later to make it seem as if it was one continuous shot.
We ended up using the editing application iMovie to edit the News broadcast because it is the ones we are most familiar with, and we made use of the different news broadcast layouts they have to take our news broadcast to the next level with making it look legit. Moreover, we accomplished making the cuts look as continuous as possible. Ultimately we were able to finish our news broadcast with the addition of both the clip of me running through the mall and the image/clip of the empty grocery store shelves.
