This is the last week with the lead up to the children in need live show on friday, everyone is getting the last bits of work done towards the final show, since i have everything ready on my part for the tasters i have been working on the Live and Loud show, i have created my own title/bumper for the show which gets played every now and then throughout the show almost like an advert reminding people what there watching. The programme took about 3 days to finish editing and burning on to a disk ready for the radio show and got delivered on time which i was pleased about because i felt like a sucessfully made a worthwhile and satisfying product which i was pleased to say i did with the help of a well bodied crew and bens help getting the bands in. Tuesday we recorded and aired the second taster which was much better compared to the first, Richard and Lisa did a nice intro to most haunted effectivly using the lights made dark and gave a spooky atmosphere. The thursday that week was the day to air the final taster this went really well we had the right timings, good countdown's and everyone was motivated to finish with the tasters.
The friday we did the final children in need show, the live 5 hour broadcast. This i thought was a complete success everyone worked together well and i feel i did my job as vision mixer as well as i ever could, everything seemed to run smoothly and any hiccups were dealt with calmly and proffesionally such as having to take out content towards the end when we realised we were running over, my running order for the day shows all the changes and annotations made to the day.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Week 6
We had planned to get the first taster done today, the rehearsal was a disaster no one seemed willing to work together including myself i guess, everyone just seemed in conflict with each other and made a big deal out of problems. Richard and Lisa needed to rehearse their scripts together so they felt more comfortable with what and ho they were talking to the audience.
I started editing the whole of Live and Loud together i felt that this peice of work i was doing was probably the most important work i would produce for this assignment apart from obviously the tasters, but clips out of this were going into the tasters anyway.
Alot of people were qiute down/annoyed about not filming never mind the fuzzcocks on saturday, maily because everyone had worked so hard to get it ready for when the BBC came to record us only to find out it wasnt being recorded that day. So tuesday came by and we recorded never mind the fuzzcocks, it went extremely well and all our rehearsals and work put into it really payed off. The jokes used by the contestants were appropriate and not over the top and made an all around entertaining and comedic show.
The group got together and decided that we were going to do the other tasters on the following tuesday and the following thursday we discussed the content aswell and they were going to include the other performances from the other bands and most haunted clips and interviews with sophie, wayne, matt, james and greg.
I started editing the whole of Live and Loud together i felt that this peice of work i was doing was probably the most important work i would produce for this assignment apart from obviously the tasters, but clips out of this were going into the tasters anyway.
Alot of people were qiute down/annoyed about not filming never mind the fuzzcocks on saturday, maily because everyone had worked so hard to get it ready for when the BBC came to record us only to find out it wasnt being recorded that day. So tuesday came by and we recorded never mind the fuzzcocks, it went extremely well and all our rehearsals and work put into it really payed off. The jokes used by the contestants were appropriate and not over the top and made an all around entertaining and comedic show.
The group got together and decided that we were going to do the other tasters on the following tuesday and the following thursday we discussed the content aswell and they were going to include the other performances from the other bands and most haunted clips and interviews with sophie, wayne, matt, james and greg.
Week 5
Monday was the next rehearsal of never mind fuzzcocks and it went much better then the previous rehearsals. As usual with our group it took a long time to set everything up but when we got started we did a run through and realised the camera men were taking to long getting their shots and being to gentle, they needed to realise that as long as i wasnt focused on their camera with the vision mixing desk then they could be a little more reckless with how they moved the camera. On my part with the vision mixing it was relatively simple apart from not having accurate timings or come in an out of vt's with. The contestants were much better this time, im glad i swapped myself with richard because he really does add a sense of humour to the show.
Other issues were timings as i said earlier, vt;s needed to be shortened because at the moment the vt's as part of round one were 30 seconds long and it didnt work at all so they are going to shortened to 10 seconds.
Tuesday came and we were in a meeting with the HND 2's, we confirmed the crew list for never mind the fuzzcocks and talked about who would be able to make it in for saturday the 6th when the BBC came in. We then moved on to talk about our taster programmes, we had worked a little towards it but hadn't even rehearsed it yet. All content which was ready for the taster was put together, this included the first aster cd including the performance from Pegasus Bridge with the track ribena and then laster on on with the track yoko and an interview with rich and lisa. Other content included a previous episode of never mind the fuzzcocks. This works well because the taster is a way of showing how we are moving the bar up with the next children in need show. Since we were doing never mind the fuzzcocks on the saturday where the BBC come in and we want to be able to show them how good/proffesional we can be. We needed to keep changing the qeustions being used otherwise when it come to the final recording it wouldbt be very good as it would have been over rehearsed and really stale. Me and matt worked on the opening titles for never mind the fuzzcocks, i filmed while matt olrenshaw edited it, we used the idea off the actual show where the titles show vinyls being smashed off the floor and different instruments in stage where there is a band set up with out the members. By this ours didnt have vinyls being smashed but it had pans around different instruments and selected video clips out of the bands i recorded/directed. We rehearsed never mind the fuzzcocks again on the friday to make 100% sure that we were ready to record it in front of the BBC.
Saturday had finally arrived and everyone was rearing for everything to be perfect, my job as usual was to vision mix, hair spray came in and we immediatly started micing them up and then got on with rehearsing their dances straight away, the rehearsals only got better we experimented alot with the shots and me and matt seemed to be on the same wavelentgh so we both wanted the show to look the same meaning their wasnt any conflict between our visions of what we thought it should look like. The BBC also seemed impressed, they did alot of filming of me and matt being messed around with by pudsey bear and seemed happy with how we reacted around pudsey bear. After hairspray we filmed the choir which was a bit of a wind down from having the BBC in and filming hairspray but this went well. I really enjoyed vision mixing for hairspray, i felt that going with the mood of the show helped me chose went to cut to another camera and which camera i decided to cut to.
Other issues were timings as i said earlier, vt;s needed to be shortened because at the moment the vt's as part of round one were 30 seconds long and it didnt work at all so they are going to shortened to 10 seconds.
Tuesday came and we were in a meeting with the HND 2's, we confirmed the crew list for never mind the fuzzcocks and talked about who would be able to make it in for saturday the 6th when the BBC came in. We then moved on to talk about our taster programmes, we had worked a little towards it but hadn't even rehearsed it yet. All content which was ready for the taster was put together, this included the first aster cd including the performance from Pegasus Bridge with the track ribena and then laster on on with the track yoko and an interview with rich and lisa. Other content included a previous episode of never mind the fuzzcocks. This works well because the taster is a way of showing how we are moving the bar up with the next children in need show. Since we were doing never mind the fuzzcocks on the saturday where the BBC come in and we want to be able to show them how good/proffesional we can be. We needed to keep changing the qeustions being used otherwise when it come to the final recording it wouldbt be very good as it would have been over rehearsed and really stale. Me and matt worked on the opening titles for never mind the fuzzcocks, i filmed while matt olrenshaw edited it, we used the idea off the actual show where the titles show vinyls being smashed off the floor and different instruments in stage where there is a band set up with out the members. By this ours didnt have vinyls being smashed but it had pans around different instruments and selected video clips out of the bands i recorded/directed. We rehearsed never mind the fuzzcocks again on the friday to make 100% sure that we were ready to record it in front of the BBC.
Saturday had finally arrived and everyone was rearing for everything to be perfect, my job as usual was to vision mix, hair spray came in and we immediatly started micing them up and then got on with rehearsing their dances straight away, the rehearsals only got better we experimented alot with the shots and me and matt seemed to be on the same wavelentgh so we both wanted the show to look the same meaning their wasnt any conflict between our visions of what we thought it should look like. The BBC also seemed impressed, they did alot of filming of me and matt being messed around with by pudsey bear and seemed happy with how we reacted around pudsey bear. After hairspray we filmed the choir which was a bit of a wind down from having the BBC in and filming hairspray but this went well. I really enjoyed vision mixing for hairspray, i felt that going with the mood of the show helped me chose went to cut to another camera and which camera i decided to cut to.
Week 4
Its now reading week so its actually our week off but ive came in because i had arranged to film the band faded cadence and stake out plus on monday morning i was a camera operator for the cooking programme which was produced by melissa, this was pretty easy since the shot i had was kept mostly static but i occasionally had to zoom in so that i could get 3 shots and shots which would focus on hand movements and changes made to the item of food being made. This seemed to be going well untill we couldnt get the oven to work and then ended up buying a cake/cakes from morrisons which the item supposed to be being made would look like.
Faded Cadence came in at about 12:00 on monday which was ealier then we were expecting them, but luckily they were pateint and didn't mind waiting in costa while we finished setting up the studio for their performance. Having recorded and directed the performance of pegasus bridge on friday afternoon i felt confident to direct this performance. It went well we did 2 run through, an interview and 1 instrumental of the band, it took a while to set the shots up for the interview, we sorted it out and it was simple, camera 1 got close ups of the band members, camera 3 was on a close up of the presenters and then camera 2 was on a tight wide shot of everyone together.
The last band to film was stakeout, the reason we got to film this band was because Ben played the keys in this band. This went relatively well, in this performance we managed to move camera 1 up alongside the left side of the studio and could get a good close up of the drummer whilst camera 3 would got a shot of all the vocalists in a line from their side. For the interview we used the same shots in which we used for faded cadence. The problems we found that the bands had when they were recorded was that they couldnt hear themselves back but there is nothing we could do about this.
Faded Cadence came in at about 12:00 on monday which was ealier then we were expecting them, but luckily they were pateint and didn't mind waiting in costa while we finished setting up the studio for their performance. Having recorded and directed the performance of pegasus bridge on friday afternoon i felt confident to direct this performance. It went well we did 2 run through, an interview and 1 instrumental of the band, it took a while to set the shots up for the interview, we sorted it out and it was simple, camera 1 got close ups of the band members, camera 3 was on a close up of the presenters and then camera 2 was on a tight wide shot of everyone together.
The last band to film was stakeout, the reason we got to film this band was because Ben played the keys in this band. This went relatively well, in this performance we managed to move camera 1 up alongside the left side of the studio and could get a good close up of the drummer whilst camera 3 would got a shot of all the vocalists in a line from their side. For the interview we used the same shots in which we used for faded cadence. The problems we found that the bands had when they were recorded was that they couldnt hear themselves back but there is nothing we could do about this.
Week 3
Monday was the second rehearsal for never mind the fuzzcocks, in the first rehearsal i was a contestant willingly, but after doing the first rehearsal i felt that i lacked the qiurky comments with all the humour attatched with them. so after that rehearsal i talked to richard alder and asked him if he wanted to take my position as a cantestant, i asked richard because i thought he would be great for the show, richard is a funny guy who doesnt have a hard time making people laugh without trying, i then told ben (the producer) and this all went down fine. So in this rehearsal i then started vision mixing for the show with alex burton directing beside me, although we have different visions of how we want things to look we still get the job done to a satisfactory quality and made a good team. This second rehearsal went pretty bad aswell due to people not really having practiced jokes/combacks etc which is what a show like this really needs to keep it going and the crew myself included wernt really clued up on the running order which just didnt help anything because no one knew when VT's were coming in leaving me clueless and not knowing when to fade to a VT 1 or VT 2. At the end of this rehearsal everyone got together in the studio and talked about all the issues, josh then voulenteered to help by co producing never mind the fuzzcocks, i feel that without josh's input the show wouldnt have gone as sucsessfull as it did.
Me and Lisa Greenaway organised a show called the Irish dancing, this would be a short dance show where a girl called Olivia wouldcome in and perform we arranged for her to come in on the 20th of october which would be a wednesday. Me and Lisa got straight on with pre production for it but the main problem was trying to write out a shot list because we wernt sure how she was going to move around the studio but we did know that she moved around alot which would prove difficult for the cameramen because theyd be moving around too much. We booked the TV studio out for wednesday from 9 -11:15.
We got to wednesday and rehearsed the irish dancing, some people were very reluctant to coming in as wednesday is their day off but we managed to got a crew together. The first problems i had was that Josh and Goerge couldnt operate the cameras for me that day so i immidiatly had to find new camera men. The next problem was lighting it was extremely dark and Olivia's dance took her all around the situation and the studio was lit very darkly. Alex couldnt vision mix for me as he was ill so lisa vision mixed and co directed with me whilst i directed and took control of the crew.
We realised that this would be extremely hard to complete as a live show so we decided to pre record it on the wednesday the 3rd of november.
I had came up with an idea for a bumper which reqiured glow sticks, the idea was that the glowsticks would move around in slow motion in the final version of the bumper and the glowsticks would be different colours and the stratford college version of the children in need logo would be on a layer over the video. This idea failed though even though the studio was pitch black the glowsticks just wern't bright enough so this idea didnt work, the other idea was slowly panning around cameras and the final version would show astons moving out of the camera lenses but we couldnt get the right quality of the video. so neither of these were used.
On the thursday afternoon i spent 2 hours preparing the studio with matt olrenshaw to get it ready for when pegasus bridge came in because it was going to be stressfull enough as it is but would be even worse if nothing was pre prepared.
The day came to finally direct the first crew and band for the live and loud show. I was extremely stressed but the day was still a big success i learnt of the problems i would face filming future bands such as trying to communicate with the camermen and floor manager was near enough impossible because the music was so loud that i literally had to scream to them down the mic so that they could hear me and luckily this did work and we got a nicely shot performance. Another problem we came across was that the bands vocals had over done it the night before at a gig and so he had no voice which effected the quality of the sound but i was still satisfied with the performance and final product, the sound was spot on in terms of our side and so was the visuals. The band also left us with some merchandise to be put in a raffle for children in need which was signed.
Pegasus bridge got in for about 1:30 which was alot later then we were told or expecting but we just had to work with it, once the band got in i helped them getting their eqiupment through into the studio and then once they were set up we got on with a sound check which didnt take to long. We went recorded two of their tracks twice, they were yoko and ribena the second run through was better so that will be used in the final edit. One of the problem that occured whilst filming was that because the camera men could barely hear me they often went off doing their own thing which was a bad idea because if we got to unlucky they could have all ended up on the same shot. This problem occured when paul stringer moved in front of camera 2 a few times and because we wernt fully aware this would show up on camera 2 if we were on it. Luckily on the second run through we managed to avoid this problem after a chat with all my camera operators.
Me and Lisa Greenaway organised a show called the Irish dancing, this would be a short dance show where a girl called Olivia wouldcome in and perform we arranged for her to come in on the 20th of october which would be a wednesday. Me and Lisa got straight on with pre production for it but the main problem was trying to write out a shot list because we wernt sure how she was going to move around the studio but we did know that she moved around alot which would prove difficult for the cameramen because theyd be moving around too much. We booked the TV studio out for wednesday from 9 -11:15.
We got to wednesday and rehearsed the irish dancing, some people were very reluctant to coming in as wednesday is their day off but we managed to got a crew together. The first problems i had was that Josh and Goerge couldnt operate the cameras for me that day so i immidiatly had to find new camera men. The next problem was lighting it was extremely dark and Olivia's dance took her all around the situation and the studio was lit very darkly. Alex couldnt vision mix for me as he was ill so lisa vision mixed and co directed with me whilst i directed and took control of the crew.
We realised that this would be extremely hard to complete as a live show so we decided to pre record it on the wednesday the 3rd of november.
I had came up with an idea for a bumper which reqiured glow sticks, the idea was that the glowsticks would move around in slow motion in the final version of the bumper and the glowsticks would be different colours and the stratford college version of the children in need logo would be on a layer over the video. This idea failed though even though the studio was pitch black the glowsticks just wern't bright enough so this idea didnt work, the other idea was slowly panning around cameras and the final version would show astons moving out of the camera lenses but we couldnt get the right quality of the video. so neither of these were used.
On the thursday afternoon i spent 2 hours preparing the studio with matt olrenshaw to get it ready for when pegasus bridge came in because it was going to be stressfull enough as it is but would be even worse if nothing was pre prepared.
The day came to finally direct the first crew and band for the live and loud show. I was extremely stressed but the day was still a big success i learnt of the problems i would face filming future bands such as trying to communicate with the camermen and floor manager was near enough impossible because the music was so loud that i literally had to scream to them down the mic so that they could hear me and luckily this did work and we got a nicely shot performance. Another problem we came across was that the bands vocals had over done it the night before at a gig and so he had no voice which effected the quality of the sound but i was still satisfied with the performance and final product, the sound was spot on in terms of our side and so was the visuals. The band also left us with some merchandise to be put in a raffle for children in need which was signed.
Pegasus bridge got in for about 1:30 which was alot later then we were told or expecting but we just had to work with it, once the band got in i helped them getting their eqiupment through into the studio and then once they were set up we got on with a sound check which didnt take to long. We went recorded two of their tracks twice, they were yoko and ribena the second run through was better so that will be used in the final edit. One of the problem that occured whilst filming was that because the camera men could barely hear me they often went off doing their own thing which was a bad idea because if we got to unlucky they could have all ended up on the same shot. This problem occured when paul stringer moved in front of camera 2 a few times and because we wernt fully aware this would show up on camera 2 if we were on it. Luckily on the second run through we managed to avoid this problem after a chat with all my camera operators.
Week 2
The second week started with a meeting with Sophie Blout, the executive producer of stratford college does children in need show. She was basically giving us the low down on everything she new was going on, what might be happening and ideas. This lesson was a bit of a brainstorm just throwing other ideas round and expanding on them. She needed people to do other jobs such as creating bumpers, opening titles etc, basically jobs which reqiured a relatively decent amount of expierience in editing. As a tv group we got together in a lesson and brainstormed all our ideas for the tasters and for the final show. We went through and decided as a group what ideas were feasable and entertaining and kept about 8 - 9 ideas and scrapped all the rest. Other things we decided were ideas for set design, other job roles, people edned up with multiple job roles such as ian would manage floor managing and lighting.
The radio group have also approached our group with a proposal for making a live lounge spoof for their radio show, i took this job on as director whilst ben gibbs produced and got the bands in for the show, i immediatly took time to start preparing for the bands coming in since i had never directed and crew for a band performance, so i had to think about lighting, camera movements, my crew, how i was going to communicate with my crew when the band were playing.
Since i opted for making bumpers i realised i had to learn how to use different editing software, the one software i started using was motion, this is an editing software which is really ideal for making a opening/closing title and bumper. This is because you can really transform the way different images act on the video made from the bumper. there are also fireworks and sparkling effects which i can insert and then turn 3D.
The radio group have also approached our group with a proposal for making a live lounge spoof for their radio show, i took this job on as director whilst ben gibbs produced and got the bands in for the show, i immediatly took time to start preparing for the bands coming in since i had never directed and crew for a band performance, so i had to think about lighting, camera movements, my crew, how i was going to communicate with my crew when the band were playing.
Since i opted for making bumpers i realised i had to learn how to use different editing software, the one software i started using was motion, this is an editing software which is really ideal for making a opening/closing title and bumper. This is because you can really transform the way different images act on the video made from the bumper. there are also fireworks and sparkling effects which i can insert and then turn 3D.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Starting 4th October - Week 1
We have now all been put in our groups due to the pathway we have chosen, I have been matched with: Alex Burton, Ian Conolly, Kate Taylor, Lisa Greenaway, Melissa, Kat, Fraiser, Matt Olrenshaw, Ben Bayliss, Rihard Alder. Are assignment is to make taster programmes leading up to the final children in need show, these taster will include breif VT inserts of work/content we plan to include on the final day so that the audiene can be kept up to date with how we are moving on with the final show. Are lessons started with editing lessons from Graham Cooper, this was relativley easy for me since i'd already used final cut pro plenty of times before so this was more of a re cap for me. we re capped also on research methods, Qualitative is about personal opinion and accuracy and Quantitative data is about how many people you give questionnaires to thus gathering your research into groups and numbers. We have now also been given our assignment briefs which are different according to which pathway we have taken. My job role throughout the taster programmes is the vision mixer, i feel comfortable taking on this job since out of everyone in our group i probably have the most expierience on the vm desk plus this is a job i enjoy. The whole group started preparing ideas for content in this first week, we have also started discussing how long each taster episode will be and sort of a set schedule for the programme.
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