Final

On Wednesday my group and I had filmed our final shoot for our multi-camera production, it is my duty to say that it went very well even though we had a late start simply because one of our talent members was running late, in the mean time we had decided that we should go ahead and get everything and everybody ready and knew exactly what each member of the group was doing.

Whilst we had to wait a while I had a chance to practice my role even more. Since I was a cameraman, all I had to do was get the angles and shots right that were directed to me by our director Saif.  I also had the chance to practice moving the camera from one side of our set to another at a fast pace to help my group capture the reactions of both contesting groups, this was an idea I had seen on my different game shows such as The Chase. Another thing I had practiced was zooming in and out at the right times and at the right pace.

Once our Talent had arrived we had moved straight on with the filming, as we were a little behind. Immediately the talent knew what he was going to do so we went straight in with the filming. At the start it seemed to be perfect simply because the music was on time, presenter had all his lines bang on and the camera shots we all perfect, but then during the middle of our production the presenters microphone had cut out so we had stop the recording and fix the issue as quickly as possible as we were quite behind.

Once the problem with the microphone was sorted out we immediately went back to recording and from then onwards everything seemed to work very smoothly and in our favor until the final round were we had the same problem occur again where our presenters microphone had cut off again. When a problem happens in our production we would all fall for it as we are working in a group and not individually, so if one person falls we all fall, in my case because the presenters microphone has cut off I would have to go back a step to the previous angle I was on and try and get it perfectly right. Once the microphone had been sorted our again, the presenter read out his final line again and we called it a rap.

Once our filming had been done we all went back to class to discuss how well it went. Whilst our discussion, our technician had came in to tell us that the final round of our production had not been recorded simply because someone had forgotten to press the record button. This was very frustrating for us, as we all had called it a rap and thought that it was all over. This was not a big issue, as we all knew what we were doing and knew what had to be done to help us finish it as quickly as possible.

Once all of the filming had been done, during our next lesson, whilst everyone was evaluating what had happened during this production I was in the editing room editing our final piece and putting it all together. The editing was very challenging as I had to do some modification on sound levels to keep it consistent as our talent were either to quite or too loud and I had to make it just perfect to be as consistent as possible.

My next challenge was editing the green screen and adding our own background. This was a huge problem, at the start of our recording we did not correctly set up the lighting of the studio correctly. This had caused a problem as whatever background I would add would not turn out to look good, so overall I had discussed this with our director and agreed on leaving our final piece with the green screen as the background.

Overall I think I can say that every group member had worked well with the role given to him or her. The pre-production had worked out to be very useful for us as this helped us manage our time correctly without going past deadlines.

Photoshop- Names and genre overlays

Creating the name overlays and genre on Photoshop



Name and Genre overlays

 

Buzzcocks

Today we had gone into the TV Studio and watched a playback of our first take of out program, this was together valuable and a good learning practice for our group. There were many areas, which need to be improved upon such as focusing and the low number of cuts we had. I feel that for our first take at something we as an entire group had never done before did not go so bad we had definitely included many different range of shot but we had still needed practice in many other factors such as cutting on time and many microphone problems. We also watched a clip from the music quiz show Never mind the Buzzcocks, which helped in what factors we need to improve on for example, the would have many cuts between the presenter and the guest/contestants.

Pre-production

 

Today was the day that each group member had the chance to make any changes and upgrades needed to be done to the pre-production simply because we are going to film during our next lesson.

Since some people where working on the music, script and the props I had the chance to upgrade the intro of our show. The intro I created is to help the audience identify our show. The intro is simple, I created it using Adobe After Effects using some simple techniques I had studied during my free time. The intro had a combination of kinetic typography and moving shapes, with very crisp and clear colours. The colours I used were simple, White and blue, the group and the director agreed on the colours. As they had to match some props according to our house colour. The music I used for the intro was quite fast past, which suited the intro perfectly, The track that I have chosen was from YouTube, I had no copyright issues as the uploader of the track had stated that the music is copyright free.

I had also added more genre overlays to the show as we had decided to add much more music genres to give our talent a wider opportunity of genres to choose from. The overlays were created within Photoshop using the same House colours and combining images from Google to create those simple by professional looking name and genre overlays. All images that I had used where copyright free. Once each and everyone of us completed their pre-production we were all ready for out next step which was to go ahead and record our final piece the next day.

Rehearsal

Since we had been in the TV studio for several times each group member understood their role within the production. We had several practices of how the show would go so everyone had an equal opportunity to understand their role.

During the rehearsal time we had also decided that our presenter should be Khalil simply because he suited that role and knew what should be said even when the script was not ready for him. For our talent, we had decided to select members from our class simply because they were much more reliable than going out to find someone else from somewhere else. Our talents were Danillo, cloudio, Nicole and Hannah.

Since I am the camera man, my job was easy, simply listen to the director to what he has to say about what team to film, when and what type of shot, for example a wide, close up or an establishing shot of the entire group. During my free time I had also had the opportunity to create a short intro for our production which was around 8 seconds long, I had also created some name and genre overlays for our final piece, these were created so that it would help out final piece look much more professional.

Group Roles

On the 16th of January, as a group we all had pitched our ides. everyone in the group had a different idea to others this made it quite difficult to pick the best. so what we decided to do was have a vote on which one to go with and since Brandy and Saif had the best ideas, they both had the most votes. Eventually we had gone with Saifs as it was the most realistic and would be more enjoyable.

Saif Babur's idea was a game show, a game show that is named What's That Song, and telling by the title you could tell straight away that it is a music related game show where the talent would have 20 seconds to listen to a song and guess either the artist of the song or guess the song it self, or guess both to get the full points.

Every person in the group had a practical role within this production and mine was being a Camera man and the editor. The other are listed below:

·         Camera operators: Sohaib and Jason 

·         Director: Saif

·         Floor manager: Brandy

·         Vision mixer: Harus

·         Sound operator: Hannah

·         Sound effects operator: Omar

·         Presenter/ host: Khalil

·         Talent: Danilo, Killian, Hannah and Nicole

·         Teleprompter

Pre-production was needed before we could even start rehearsing in the studio. Everyone had different paper work to do and I had a particle role. I was handed the role to create and intro for the production. I had also created the overlays of the programme which contained the names of the Talent. I had also helped out in a role where we had decided on which music we should add. This is when our production started to come together, and we started to go into the TV as one group and sort out the shooting script, music, and camera angles.