Well, we made it onto tape, and next week we’ll be on the airwaves! After all of the hard work that Liz and I have put into our efforts we went down to Radio Arverne’s offices in Gerzat along with Julie, our special guest for the month of March.
No-one had told us how it was to be presented so we worked out our own system of presentation and production which would have done the trick – to record the five weekly “what’s on” sessions and then do firstly the chat with Julie about her experiences in the French hospital system followed by the chat about building permits and then chop the chats up into chunks to fit around the “what’s on” bits in order to make five programmes of equal lengths.
So having worked that out, as we were all grouped around the mikes ready to go they then decided that what they wanted was for the programmes to be recorded in their sequence of events. Now how on earth can you do that when you don’t know what people are going to say in advance and you have to watch your papers, watch your guests and watch a clock at the same time?
We managed to record three programmes and we have to go back on March 9th to do the other two (March is a 5-week month). And after our recording efforts we still had to do some editing so it really defeated the purpose of what we were trying to do and they could just as well have edited it from our proposal which would have been quicker to record. Ahhh well!
We listened to some of it afterwards and it sounds terribly amateurish but in actual fact we ought to be proud of what we did. We were three people effectively just off the street with no formal training and with very little “previous” in this kind of thing and we were given no guidance at all yet between the three of us we managed to get something like three half-decent radio shows on the very first take. You can’t ask for more than that.
And I was wrong about the temperature last night. We had a mere minus 9.7 degrees. Round at Liz’s she saw minus 17. This morning in the verandah it was 1.2 when I went down for breakfast but in the 20 minutes that I took to eat it the temperature rose to 5.2. The sun was such that I even ran the electric heater up here this morning.
I’t’s 1.2 degrees outside now and everything is melting. I don’t reckon the winter is over yet though.
The Canon T2i has a top ISO of 6400.
You may or may not want to use a low-end Canon. The problem is that you don’t have independent control of shutter and aperture simulteneously. To change aperture or shutter you turn a wheel. To select aperture or shutter you have to press a button while turning that wheel. It’s not that intuitive although my XT has the same controls.
Generally I would expect for sport you’d be using aperture priority with the aperture locked wide open and letting the camera judge the shutter speed.
With the 70-300 lens, the aperture does gor from f4 to 5.6 but on my 70-300 f4-5.6IS, the aperture doesn’t drop from f4 until I get out over 200mm.