January 2023 – Shumona Motin

Task 3 – Production and screening of the live studio broadcast

The machine I used is shown below. I understood how to use the preview and program when changing the camera. I also learnt how to use effects and how to fade to the cameras without switching it all the time. Even though we don’t want to add many effects we use a couple of fades throughout the show.

The fade to black (FTB) is something is use at the start of the show. When the director counts down I use this button to let the camera fade into our presenters of the show after the intro is played. The intro will be a maximum of 30 seconds, I then fade to black and whatever camera the director would like me to show i put on. The sliding black toggle is something I may use to switch cameras with a fade effect. This may be used a couple times throughout the show to switch things up instead of just going from camera to camera. When I use this slider I put the preview (the green buttons), to what camera the director would like it to fade to.

The lighting machine is also useful because we might want to have different colours or just set the tone of the show right with a specific colour. We may not use this but it’s good to have it here if we want to change the atmosphere. We may change the lighting for the entertainment part of the show to make the room seem more ambient.

I have looked at talk shows like Graham Norton and Jimmy Fallon where they have spotlights, they have mood lighting depending on the artist that is playing their music. We put purple lighting for the music performance towards the end of the show.

I didn’t take a picture of the wireless headsets that we use but they look very similar to these. These help the vision mixer (me), the director, (Kenzie) and the floor manager (Leon), communicate with each other easily without the hassle of moving rooms all the time.

What went well:

We managed to stay on track and follow our plan that we made. The presenters stuck to the script we wrote and switching from the studio to play-back videos went very smoothly. We managed to have a strong intro, that went to the studio, to the street interview and then back to the studio for the music performance. Our presenters said goodbye to the viewers and the whole recording was 24 minutes. Most tv shows are 20-30 minutes so we thought this was a normal length made for television.

I liked the music we chose and it fit the genre of the show well. Also, in the production room where me and Kenzie (vision mixer and director) stayed whilst filming – we managed to be organised enough to know when to switch cameras, and as the vision mixer I knew when to mute the presenters microphones when we went on to the play-back videos. I also had to unmute the music for the live performance towards the end of the show and it went very smoothly. I got instructions from the director on when to switch the cameras during filming, and what to preview when we wanted to fade to another camera.

Overall i have enjoyed this experience. I have loved seeing what we can add to the show to make it better, seeing our ideas come to life and being able to have control over what we would like to make. Our team has been great in communicating with each other and we all have found roles that suit us, we all take opinions from each other to see what we like and don’t like for our show.

This is team A, and we have all assessed each other on what we thought was good and what we thought was bad. Leon our floor manager got a lot of positive feedback because of his quality of work and the effort he put into the filming room.

I put positive feedback for our presenters because they had good subject knowledge and their scripts we good they knew how to talk with the ‘audience’ and in front of the camera they were very interactive and knew how to present it as a tv show.

Our director Kenzie had great communication especially with me in the production room as a mixer and I knew what she wanted me to do during filming. Her quality of work was good and she brought up good ideas on what the presenters should do in the show.

I need to work on script writing and i should practice when given another project. My strengths during this project was being on time and organised when going from task to task. As a vision mixer I knew how to switch from camera to camera and I communicate well with out floor manager when filming. I knew how to mute our presenters microphones when we went to the play back videos and and when to unmute our music for the live performance towards the end of the show.

This was one of our feedback sheets from when we watched ur video with our classmates on 9th of February. They gave it a rating of seven out ten, which is a good score in my opinion. They liked our street interview which was our play-back videos that came on halfway through he show. However, there was also some negative feedback. They said our audio was bad due to the wind. This was most likely the street interview where we filmed outside in Bradford. The wind was bad during that time and we could film indoors and that was our only day to film. The audio was a bit choppy at times but it was okay for the rest.

This person gave us an eight out of ten. They said the editing was really cool and it was funny. Their favourite part of the show was the intro and that is for Leon as he did the editing for it really well. However, there was some negative feedback and they said the camera was too zoomed in and that the quality was low. The camera was going from top quality to blurry at times when filming in the studio but we couldn’t. do anything to stop that. As for the camera being too zoomed in it may just be their opinion on how they’d like the show to be filmed because we were together as a group and agreed on certain camera angles and we liked the way we set it up.

This is our official talk show, it has been posted on YouTube as unlisted and it is around 24 minutes long.

I confirm that the attached assessment is all my own work and does not include any work completed by anyone other than myself and sources have been appropriately referenced.

Task 2 – Planning and Pre Production

The camera will pan to different presenters who will have a script and will know what to say in front of the viewers.

My groups main idea is to present a game show. Here we will have a main quiz where we question people on the entertainment industry. This includes questions about films, series and video games. We might do multiple choice, and our main editor will put in questions on the screen for the viewers to answer the questions at home. The questions will be about film and tv shows. It will be about things that have come out in the past year.

An example I have been inspired by is the UK game ‘The chase’. It has a main host, the players, and the person the players have to beat. I have chosen to get inspiration from the chase, because I like the layout, how they present the chase and it is something I want to incorporate into my show.

For research I have looked at shows like hot ones. This is a show where people eat and interview people. This is inspiration for our show and we will take aspects of this and incorporate it into segments of the episode. I have looked on youtube since that is where they release their interviews. Our show will be more tv based and not on social media sites. I have seen how they present their show for example, they have a host who invites a celebrity guest and they talk about the celebrities life and what they have done in their career. Their set up is nice and simple, it also similar to our set up. They have a main camera to show both people and another two that focusses on one of them separately.

I have also looked at good morning Britain. Their show is on itv, and itv hub. However you can also see clips of it on youtube. What I like most about good morning Britain is how they present their show. I like their intro music which is linked here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-byLeq8SqI (intro music for GMB)

What i also like about it is the graphics at the start. I’d like our show to have a strong intro, like this. We need to make a good logo that resonates with our show and the topics that we’ll be talking about. Our show will have fun parts but serious parts as well so I think the logo and how we present our show will be important.

My first idea has changed because we have now chosen our groups and we all have decided on an idea for the show. I have been looking at TikTok shows that people do, where they interview people on the street and we are using bits of that to incorporate in a segment of the show.

Looking at names for the show, we are trying to find a name that correlates to music and the culture of Bradford. We want something simple, clear and

As a group we have made a lot of decisions and are now making plans on how we are going to set out our show.

These are some ideas we wrote down on what we’d like our show to be like.

Our roles :

Shumona : Vision mixer/lighting technician

Kenzie: Director

Leon : Floor manager/editor

Meher and Henry : Interviewers

For the camera operators we may ask people to come in and help us out, but we have decided that we don’t really need to move the cameras during the show. We want the cameras to already be set up before we film, and me, the vision mixer will switch from cameras to ensure we get different angles so we can clearly see the presenters.

At the start of the show we are going to add some intro music. (We have not yet decided the music). This will play for approximately 10-15 seconds before our host will introduce the audience to the show. The interview will begin with our guest. Our main topic will be all about Bradford and the culture. We will have 3 cameras set up, and the camera operator will set them up so we can see the people in front of the camera clearly. The microphone will also be set up properly so we can hear them clearly.

When we’re done with the interview part we might go to our next section of our show. This will be street interviews filmed by our main cast and crew. There will be our two presenters walking around Bradford, asking questions we would like to be answered.. We will set cameras up, or have a camera operator so we can film it without hassle.. It will be added to the show after we have recorded it and the sound effects and music will be edited in.

When the second section is done we will have the music and entertainment to finish off the show. This will be the closing act and our host will say goodbye to the audience, the outro music will play as the camera pans out and it fades to the credits.

For the credits I would like to add any bonus parts of the show that didn’t make it into the episode and add any bloopers that we have from filming. As our names go by with our roles on the credits the music will fade and the show will end. I would like the show to be 15-25 minutes long, however it depends on how much we can film. We also have to make sure that it’s not too long (30 minutes or more) and not too short 15 minutes or less). Most shows we see on television are 25 to 30 minutes long however there are also advertisements, so ours should run for 20 to 25 minutes.

This is the set up i’d like in the studio. The vision mixer and director are of course behind the glass in the other room. The wireless headsets will help us communicate without the trouble of having to move rooms all the time. The cameras will be set up before we film,

Name ideas : ‘Bradford Live’ ‘Bradford TV’

The script will be for the interviews in the TV studio. The interviewer will have questions to ask, approximately 4 to questions on the genre they will be talking about.

Today is 19th of January, we have planned where and what we are going to film. We have planned where the cameras will be, and how they will move in the intro and outro. We have decided on the music and entertainment. Which will be one of our main cast members performing his own music. We need to write a solid script and think of our music that we’ll use throughout the show. We all have our roles that we have for each other and we know what we need to focus on.

A script we will use for the autocue:

Script Download

It’s 30th of January and we have finished rehearsals for our show. Everything went well and we all know what to do in our role. As a vision mixer i have tried and tested the machine i use to switch the camera. I now understand how to use it since trying it multiple times. The director is the person that helped me when rehearsing as they told me what cameras to switch to at the right time.

DATES FOR SHOW REHEARSALS

Monday the 30^th of Jan at 9:30pm – 3pm

Wednesday the 1st of Feb 9:30 am – 4:30 pm

DATES FOR FINAL SHOW BROADCAST

Wednesday the 8th of Feb 9:30 am – 4:30 pm

These are the dates for the rehearsals and our team needs to book a slot so we can practice our script, how to test out microphones, cameras and for me the vision mixer i can play around with the technology to help me understand how we’d like the show to be presented.

This is something i made to help me figure out tools on Adobe photoshop. This is something that helped when trying to make a logo that was good for our show.

Draft logo:

This is a simple logo that we might use in the intro and be used for branding and when people see our show.

The first logo below is without the Bradford logo because we might add a different background.

There are new logos that we all think is better and resonates with our show and Bradford. The second one is more colourful, has a better background and the font of the words have changed. This was made on photoshop, I like that it’s a lot more colourful, I like the microphone and television being incorporated into the title and it looks a lot more creative.

This is the first draft of the music for our intro. This was made by a member of our group and we all agreed that it sounds good and upbeat for the show.

Today is the first of February. We have filmed our street interview with Henry and Meher as the presenters. We had the cameraman hold the camera and microphone while trying to find people who will answer our question. The presenters also had cue cards to show what questions they want to ask. Finding people was difficult but in the end we got a good couple of interviews from people who wanted to be on camera.

It’s the 8th of February and the intro has been fully done. The same music is used and we’ve added Bradford in the back. Leon edited this as he is our main editor and he incorporated one of our presenters voices (Henry), towards the end to introduce our viewers. We will use this at the very start of the show as our intro.

We loaned out a camera and a microphone from the central media services, and it was used for the day. We had an SD card so we could get all the footage and later on edit it and put it into the show.

We also got the opportunity to find out about issues that have been going on in Bradford. There was a protest in city park (school strikes) and we got a couple of pictures of people with posters, and we managed to get an interview from someone. These are some protestors standing with their posters.

This is a little behind the scenes of what it looked like when we started filming. We found a neutral background, the people in front of the camera are facing towards it whilst the cameraman holds it steady. This particular photo was taken when we found a protester from the school strikes.

When we film our final show in the TV studio we will be prepared but this week we need to make the final changes to the intro, the music and have the script ready for the auto-cue in the studio.

This is our street interview that was filmed on the first of February. This as edited by Henry and we all agreed to make the street interview as comedy style to make our viewers laugh and enjoy the show whilst also answering questions we’d like to hear from the people of Bradford.

Project 3 -Task 1 – Broadcast media production

Producer

A producer hires writers for shows and films, and they oversee all parts off pre-production, production and post production. It is common for a film in pre-production to have several producers. Most producers are physically on set and are always in collaboration with the director.

The producers are one of the first people to start working on production. In the pre-production, they work to get investment and get financing for the film/show. They also work with a team of writers, to make sure production is on schedule and in their budget.

The producers work together to find a director unless a director hasn’t already been assigned to the project already. They also reach out to some big name actors and actresses for the main character roles in the film/show.

A producer works with a director to bring on creative people like a cinematographer, a production designer and casting agents. It is an important role for producers to fill and it is key to hire creative and team working producers so they can hire the best of people to work on a film or show.

Producers don’t really need a lot of equipment since they are less physical and more about hiring and keeping everything on schedule. Producers have scripts for the film/show on them, they have communication technology, like walkie talkies or just a smartphone so they are able to call agencies and people.

Vocabulary a producer would need to know:

‘Call sheet’ – The assistant director will put together schedule thats given to the cast and crew. It contains things like where and when they are needed on set and when they are filming. It is often called a ‘daily call sheet’.

‘Below the line’ – It refers to the line that separates actors, directors, producers, and writers from the on-set crew.

‘First unit’ – It refers to the people who are involved in filming the parts of the film that are of most importance. These scenes usually include the lead actors of the film. In giant productions there is usually a first and second unit.

Having a producer is of most importance because they are in communication with all the department heads, and they make sure everyone is doing their job. A producer is essential so when they are being hired it is important for them to have strong management and organisational skills. They must be creative thinking and have film production experience.

Camera operator

A camera operator has skills like framing shots, being able to select the appropriate camera lenses and camera cranes so they can portray scenes in the correct way, or the way a director wants them too.

A camera operator will need a video camera. The type of camera depends on what kind of content someone wants to be filmed. Next someone would need a tripod or a camera holder. This is so still shots can be filmed and and the camera is steady when certain shots are recorded.

Next they would need a microphone. There is usually a microphone holder on set but it is needed to the camera can pick up audio clearly for the final take. They would also need audio cables and headphones. These are connected to the camera and it is important for them to check over the scenes that they have filmed so that the audio is good and they are happy with the scene.

Lenses and batteries fully charged are essential if there is a full day of filming ahead of them. Having different lenses ensures they can get the shot thy need and having multiple batteries charged can make sure the camera does not run out of charge and they don’t lose any footage that is being recorded.

Vision mixers

They work on multi-camera TV programmes. They select was the viewers see on their televisions at home. They sit next to the director in the production room, in front of monitors, and they cut between the different pictures available.

Our Director Kenzie will be in the production room with me to ensure we’re getting the correct shots and we like the layout of the camera and where the presenters will be shown.

The equipment i will be using is a program and preview bus, and i will have a wireless headset to make sure i can hear our floor manager (Leon) in the filming room.

As a vision mixer I will make sure the cameras are set in the correct place so when I cut between cameras they are in the right place and we see a clear picture of the presenters on screen.

Typically a vision mixer would be found in a video production environment such as a production control room of a television studio. They need to know how to use the buttons so they can switch cameras easily when the director would like them to.

They require high levels of concentration to ensure a smooth production. They are required to work to accommodate production requirements. They should be able to multi-task effectively. They need to have strong visual awareness, stay calm under pressure and make smart decisions.