Section 1- The brief
For this unit, I had been asked by E4 to; plan, research and organised a Music based, Magazine program for an audience for fourteen to twenty year old British teenagers using a Multi-camera production. The show was to be fifteen minutes of content filmed on the day and the other fifteen minutes was going to be for adverts, music videos etc.
There was lots of different, difficult tasks me and the crew had to overcome, such as choosing a name for the show, We had to choose different games that were fun to play, which out of our five music videos, we would since we could only use three of the music videos, who would get what job roles, what logo we would use, what camera would face where and what the shot type/angle it would be and the different clips/ graphic we would use on the show.
One of the things that I thought was a really big thing we had to discus about was the title of the show, there was a lot of really good names like 'tweet that,' which was my idea, Vibe which was Prinul's idea, And that's a rap which was Jasmeet's idea and Tempo which was Kaval's idea.We ended up choosing none of these ideas, and choosing the name 'The Beat'. which was Jada's idea. The logo for the show is on the right. I also think that the show's games which were guess the nose and the lyrics game made the show even better to show to everyone as both games were interesting to watch and having the host ad libbing there own jokes even made the crew laugh a bit.
In my opinion I think that the final production of the beat met the brief by almost coping the scenario as the show uses aspects of a teenager's life, this is done by the show having music videos which a lot of teenagers watch and having tweets being read out as a lot of teenagers have Twitter and being read out on TV is a big thing for them. Also I think that having the stage set up so the each camera has its own main position was really a really good idea, Below I have included an image of the set up from the show
I think that the crew was kind of bad during pre-production as some of the effects/ clips needed had not been working properly or even done before the last couple of days before filming the show but over all it was done well and it looked nice and at production everything seemed to work well and everyone was working together as a unit.
Section 2 - Self Evaluation
Within the crew, I was the camera operator, which means I controlled where camera were to go and also controlled a camera during filming. The roles the camera operator has to do include being hard headed about shots/shot types, the ability to review the set plans and know where everything is going/is as to be able to get the best shot without having to waste space with head room and lastly to able able to read and understand the script so the camera came in the right place at the right time. I feel as I met most of the expectations for the job role, apart from the set plan one as when shooting the actual show, I had an accidental regarding the camera when the game 'Guess the nose game,' which was about 7:20 minutes of the first part of the show as there was no clear indication of what set of noses was being looked at and I had actually gotten lost when filming. The link to watch this scene will be here and a screenshot of it on the right.
That was the only accident that was in the production regarding me. Regarding the hard headed I actually chose all the shot types for the camera and understanding the script, the reason I think that I did actually well is because I actually read the script quite a lot so I feel like I knew it all and if I happened to forget anything, Jasmeet, the director was describing each shot to use via mic/headphones so if there were any changes, I could hear there and also with the 'Guess the nose' game, before we starting filming the show properly, we as a group decided to change the script so the cameras could see the game better which meant that we had to quickly remember the change. Apart from the game issue, I did not actually find any issues or difficulties with filming 'The Beat.' But there was one problem I noticed when watching over the show, is that the lighting does not look as good as I even thought it was going to be when filming, as looking over it now, the video does not look very clear and orange and kind of blurry but that might be because we did not use natural light.
On the right is my Job roles post which I used check which of the skill in the camera operator job.
Section 3 - Analysis of final production
For practical reasons, I think that the show's cameras mostly shot all the action apart from the guess the nose part, but the cameras stayed on the hosts, guest and/or both depending on what camera and most of the time the cameras were real at the right shot at the right time, this was done because if the viewers couldn't see everything on the screen, the show wouldn't be that good and no one would watch it. The studio had a limit which was that because it was mainly a classroom, everything had to be made to look like a studio and yet we could not use the whole area because of the time it would take to set that all up, would take the crew ages to make the look like a set, and because at points like the one on the right there was scenes where you could see the environment that was not meant to be seen like the piece of black tape on the floor.
The aesthetic reasons for are that the background is made to look really nice, by adding the awesome background. The background was cool and gave the show this idea that it was even cooler than it was, making viewer want to be part of the show as its cool. The way that communicates meaning to the viewer is by showing a new set of music videos, allowing them to get a different idea of what other music there is.
There was lots of different, difficult tasks me and the crew had to overcome, such as choosing a name for the show, We had to choose different games that were fun to play, which out of our five music videos, we would since we could only use three of the music videos, who would get what job roles, what logo we would use, what camera would face where and what the shot type/angle it would be and the different clips/ graphic we would use on the show.
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| The chosen logo for the show |
In my opinion I think that the final production of the beat met the brief by almost coping the scenario as the show uses aspects of a teenager's life, this is done by the show having music videos which a lot of teenagers watch and having tweets being read out as a lot of teenagers have Twitter and being read out on TV is a big thing for them. Also I think that having the stage set up so the each camera has its own main position was really a really good idea, Below I have included an image of the set up from the show
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| Set up |
I think that the crew was kind of bad during pre-production as some of the effects/ clips needed had not been working properly or even done before the last couple of days before filming the show but over all it was done well and it looked nice and at production everything seemed to work well and everyone was working together as a unit.
Section 2 - Self Evaluation
Within the crew, I was the camera operator, which means I controlled where camera were to go and also controlled a camera during filming. The roles the camera operator has to do include being hard headed about shots/shot types, the ability to review the set plans and know where everything is going/is as to be able to get the best shot without having to waste space with head room and lastly to able able to read and understand the script so the camera came in the right place at the right time. I feel as I met most of the expectations for the job role, apart from the set plan one as when shooting the actual show, I had an accidental regarding the camera when the game 'Guess the nose game,' which was about 7:20 minutes of the first part of the show as there was no clear indication of what set of noses was being looked at and I had actually gotten lost when filming. The link to watch this scene will be here and a screenshot of it on the right.
That was the only accident that was in the production regarding me. Regarding the hard headed I actually chose all the shot types for the camera and understanding the script, the reason I think that I did actually well is because I actually read the script quite a lot so I feel like I knew it all and if I happened to forget anything, Jasmeet, the director was describing each shot to use via mic/headphones so if there were any changes, I could hear there and also with the 'Guess the nose' game, before we starting filming the show properly, we as a group decided to change the script so the cameras could see the game better which meant that we had to quickly remember the change. Apart from the game issue, I did not actually find any issues or difficulties with filming 'The Beat.' But there was one problem I noticed when watching over the show, is that the lighting does not look as good as I even thought it was going to be when filming, as looking over it now, the video does not look very clear and orange and kind of blurry but that might be because we did not use natural light.
- I have gained more team work skills as working with a group of people who all have different ideas for a perfect show meant that we had to use a lot of different ideas in the show.
- I have better camera skills as I spent all my time working with the camera which lead to me getting better when using it.
- I have better communication skills because of this as I worked a lot better with the group and everyone seemed to get better at giving there own input towards the show.
- I think that I have better script skills because of this project as now I know what it must be like to be a person who works with the camera scripts.
- And lastly I think that I have better time management skills as I spent a lot of time working on different parts of the script and working the cameras to be perfect and sorting that out and still doing my normal everyday stuff as well.
On the right is my Job roles post which I used check which of the skill in the camera operator job.
Section 3 - Analysis of final production
For practical reasons, I think that the show's cameras mostly shot all the action apart from the guess the nose part, but the cameras stayed on the hosts, guest and/or both depending on what camera and most of the time the cameras were real at the right shot at the right time, this was done because if the viewers couldn't see everything on the screen, the show wouldn't be that good and no one would watch it. The studio had a limit which was that because it was mainly a classroom, everything had to be made to look like a studio and yet we could not use the whole area because of the time it would take to set that all up, would take the crew ages to make the look like a set, and because at points like the one on the right there was scenes where you could see the environment that was not meant to be seen like the piece of black tape on the floor.The aesthetic reasons for are that the background is made to look really nice, by adding the awesome background. The background was cool and gave the show this idea that it was even cooler than it was, making viewer want to be part of the show as its cool. The way that communicates meaning to the viewer is by showing a new set of music videos, allowing them to get a different idea of what other music there is.
