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.
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