7th January-The Bill workshop

after returning from our holiday we were given a chance to see what it was like directing, filming and acting. A director named sebastian, who had directed many television programmes and worked with many stars came in and taught us different important shots that they used. These included the master shot; youy would base most of your soap around which was one straight take of the scene. He also gave us tips on directing and that the director controlled everything the actors did and other roles such as cameramen.

We where then split up into groups and were left to film and renact a scene from the police drama "The Bill". In our groups we switched roles to get a feel of what each individual job as the actors, cameraman and director was like for a short period then decided which one we wanted be. I chose to be an actor and we managed to film our scene successfully with a range of shots which included over the shoulder shots, two shots, close ups and master shots.

After the filming was complete we got to ask questions about anything we wanted to know to do with directing, filming and acting and i think i gained some knowledge in all of these fields and got me interested in the idea of working behind the set of programmes and films.