8.25 Answers to self-teaching questions: Exercise 2

QUESTION 1:
How many institutions does the crew have to visit?

Answer:
a. 1 institution

The crew is going to shoot at one institution (Faculty of Sciences, J.E. Purkyne´s University, Ústí nad Labem, CZ), but within this institution they will be shooting at several places: scientist's office (interview), lab with scales for weighing spiders, lab for spider dissections, lab with special microscope, glass house, and room with terrariums with various spiders.

QUESTION 2: Which of the following things does the scientist have to do to prepare for the shooting?

1. Look over the suitable video footage he has made during scientific observations and choose the suitable parts.
2. Make arrangements in laboratories where the shooting will take place.
3. Request approval from the institution's management for the shooting.

Answer:
a, b, and c.

In fact, the scientist has a great load of work to do for you:

• He has to ask his director or the press person of the institute for permission to shoot on the premises of the institute; you may have to provide a request acknowledged by your TV station.
• He has to choose suitable video footage from the whole bunch he made for his scientific purposes – and you have to sort through the chosen footage as well.
• He has to find a very hungry big female spider and prey for her – a white mouse in this case.
• He has to ask his student to perform the dissection of spider, and he has to ask the technician to demonstrate how the spider fibre is explored by means of the special atomic force microscope.

A few days before the actual shooting you have to check that everything is arranged.

QUESTION 3:
Is the journalist going to use a majority of footage made at the site by himself, or a majority of footage handed over by the scientist?

Answer:
b. The majority of the material will be produced by the TV crew.

The journalist has to use a majority of his or her own footage and picks up only the best bits from the bunch the scientist puts forth. Shots made by the scientist are usually done for another purpose and are usually too lengthy. These shots are also of poor technical quality, with the result that they may have to be made smaller and put into a frame size of one quarter of the TV screen. But the features may be so unique that this fact outweighs their impaired visual qualities.

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