For this assignment we had to do a diary, but because i forgot i won’t be able to say what I did every day but i’ll put it down as weeks:
1st week
We got the assignment for the multi-cam production; we got put into tiny groups and decided what roles we’d have:
My group was me, Declan, Jo and Josh. We decided we’d take care of the celebrity round. For our round we decided to make boxes appear on the screen and each team would have to pick a number and half of the boxes would have pictures of us dressed up as something and the other half would have questions.
We decided what roles each one of us would have on the production:
- Jo got the content person meaning she’d make sure we had our questions and the answers were right and that everything happened like we wanted it.
- Declan got the set, he was in charge to help building the set, come up with ideas and stuff like that.
- Josh got the editing which meant helping out making the VTs or the opening titles and he also was supposed to make our boxes for the questions.
- My job was helping around with what was needed, and stuff like that. So for the first two weeks i helped Jo doing her stuff.
On the first Wednesday we got a lot of theory on stuff from peter talking about the roles in a show and how some things worked. It was cool and the first practical stuff we did was using a camera, directing the person on camera, we learned about the vision mixing table, the sound, DVD, and lighting.
The next day we tried to come up with titles for our show but that didn’t go well at first.
2nd Week
On the second week we had to continue with whatever we were doing, I helped Jo with the content in our round. Then we decided that we wouldn’t have the boxes and instead we’d just get 4 questions to each team. We took pictures of us as celebrities: me as Amy Winehouse, Jo as Lady gaga, Josh as Jack Sparrow and we bought Mr Potato head to take a picture of it.
And then we had a question about each celebrity that we were representing. And this is how our round got decided. We actually took the pictures on this week too.
On Peter’s lesson for this week we had to bring 10 question about whatever we learnt about the week before and this was so we could have people sitting and we’d ask questions and a the rest of us would have a job as camera, vision mixing, sound or something else. On this week i got to be vision mixer and i also just sat on the side not doing much, just helping out with what was needed.
We also came up with the name and we decided on MEDIA CIRCUS. And we started painting boards in magnolia to give it a 1st coat so we could start putting our ideas into it.
3rd week
On the third week we kept painting, well i and the rest of people that were supposed to pain painted more, the rest of the magnolia we needed and watched the paint dry.
The rest of the people did what they had to do: VTs for their round, the DVD for the show with all the vts and the credits we needed.
On this peter lesson we kept practicing with the cameras but this time we had a table and we used Group Bs stuff to make it easier for us to prepare for our show.
4th week
We nhad nearly finished our set, our script wasn’t finished so we couldn’t quite use it to practice, so we kest going with group B’s stuff.
Here i had the role of camera person which was pretty cool, and i had to be a contestant so other people could practice. It was quite fun to see from a contestant point of view everyone working quite hard so we could get this done.
5th week
This was the last week, the set was finished, although we had trouble with paint we did it on time, our scripts were finished so we practiced with them to make it easier.
Everything got done quite fast and we had lots of practice during the weeks that went by so I was quite positive.
Every Wednesday we had a theory session in the morning so we learnt about everything and then practices and that’s why we had the best show(in my opinion) and because the teachers knew what had gone wrong before it made it easier for us to do this show.
I had lots of fun for the past few weeks learning everything needed to create a quiz show, how everything worked and as we worked in a team helped us to get to know each other quite well.
The show went well, and i think everyone was pleased with it.
Thursday, 1 April 2010
Analysis
For this assignment we had to watch and analyse two live TV shows and for this i picked two live shows: 8 out of 10 cats; Jeremy Kyle show.
I picked these two because i enjoy them, also because we’re supposed to analyse a quiz show and another live show. I thought these two were a good choice because 8 out of 10 cats is funny and it’s like what we’re doing and easy to analyse. I picked Jeremy Kyle show because i thought it would be easy to analyse.
8 out of 10 cats:
This starts with vt’s that show percentages, famous people they do this to show what the show is about. Statistics, percentages and stuff like that. It’s also about news and people have to guess what’s been talked the most for the past week. So the opening credits show what the show is about and even the title says so.
Then we see a wide shot of the studio and the teams are sitting they are presented and then host comes in, he comes from the audience and then he stands talks they cut it to a medium close up and only then he sits down and starts the game.
He talks to the contestants and we see medium close ups of each team.
From watching about 10 minutes of the show i thought that they are using six different cameras:
- 2 for team A
- 2 for team B
- 1 for the host
- 1 for the wide shot
This is not just from watching but it’s how most of the quiz shows are done so it’s easy to pick up by watching it anyway.
The teams have the microphones on their eye line, meaning they have the microphone clipped on the side they are most likely to be looking at during the show. I thought the host was meant to have it in the middle but actually he has his microphone on the left side from a camera point of view.
As the shows goes on and it sounds a bit scripted most of what the host says, the camera shots go from team to team mostly using three shots of the whole team, when saying the scores the teams appear in order too. I’d think most of what the contestants say is ad lib so the director has to change cameras as it goes, mostly he anticipates what’s going to happen for an easier job.
On this show there are inserts that appear on the screen in the studio and they also appear on telly for the audience at home to see it better and see what goes on. Each team has an buzzer and they buzz in to say the answer.
By watching this programme i can see how important things like the inserts, the wide shots (which are used to show people at home the whole set and everything that’s going on), the way the script is done has to match everything so there’s continuity. For example the host would make jokes about some news or statistics that were being read.
The lighting on this show is practically one light to the host then one or two for each team. The backlight is set quite low so the people look more interesting than the set and that’s what the quiz shows are about the guests and their reaction that’s why the majority of the shots are shots with the whole team or individual medium close ups; so we see the reaction of each individual of if they lost/won we see their reaction as a team.
Mostly the host is there to present the show, guide the contestants through each round and tell the scores they are the voice people have to listen to. They’re there to make sure that everything goes well rather than make the show about them.
This is how the studio for the quiz show looks:
Overall, I think this show is basically what we are preparing, and I’m glad that they are quite alike it proves that we can be very professional and how much our skills will improve. I like that we’re doing our script according to the theme just like we can see on 8 out of 10 cats. The Show is very well directed, even if there are bloopers that get taken out you can see that everything that’s going on is controlled, each shot of each team is matched so when looking at the TV we see continuity of the shots and the way is filmed. For example if we see an over the shoulder shot of team A it’s most likely to see one on team B as well that matches one another.
Jeremy Kyle show
This a live show that’s based on people’s lives, people go there to talk about their problems and luckily they will get help from the host as they need.
This show hasn’t got teams like a quiz show, here the host stands up walking around the set, while the guests go and sit on the set talking to the host.
This isn’t scripted, they talk about their lives and it’s more ad lib than anything else. There are about 6 cameras that i could count:
- 4 – 2 on each side of the set to get shots of the guests in each side.
- 1 on top(pointing from the set to the audience) to get one of the host
- 1 for a wide shot of everyone (including audience) at the back of the studio.
These cameras are on tripods but every now and then i think the camera men hold the camera to get better shots of people of if they need to film the audience, the host sometimes talks to someone sitting so they need to move to see it.
The shots used are medium close ups of guests, two/three shots if needed. Mostly to capture their emotions, this is because the show is about their lives and when something bad is found about someone people like to see people’s reaction, sometimes they use shots just for the audience to see other people’s reaction too.
They all have Omni-microphones clipped on them in the middle because they look at both sides and at the host who is in front of them, so by having the microphones in the middle of their tops it’s easier to catch all of what they say, and to make sure no other noise is captures (e.g. people breathing, any jewellery, hair hitting the microphone) they are clipped quite far down.
The audience has microphones to be able to listen to them clapping and cheering or ‘booing’’.
In shows like this normally when the host talks to the audience they use a boom to catch their voice, sometimes they have a microphone on their hands t hand to whoever wants to talk, but on Jeremy Kyle the people from the audience that talk are normally people that are related to the guests and have a say on whatever is going on so they a have a clip on mic most of the time.
As this is a show where people don’t quite have turns to talk, sometimes it ends up with two or three people talking at the same time, so the master fader should be faded down and when this happens the host has to calm people down or make them shut up so it’s easier to know what’s going on.
The lighting on the host on this show I’m not sure how it goes because he walks all over the place so they can’t just have the lights up and running on the same place, i think they might have just the studio lit in a way that he can walk and always be seen properly.
The guests have lights pointing at them and we see this in a few of the shots, they have spot lights and fill lights pointing at both sides of the set to make sure everyone is lit properly.
The audience is also lit but not as much as the host and guests.
The host in a programme like this has to listen to people, talk to them ask questions about what they want to do, offer them help (e.g. counselling, DNA tests, lie detector tests.) But most of all keep the situation controlled so there’s no need for security and even so sometimes they have to go on the show to stop abusive people.
The director on this show has to be ready for anything that happen so he can pick the right camera at the right time, unlike a quiz show it’s impossible to know who’s going to talk next, or who’s going to do something. So it’s much more difficult to anticipate what’s happening on this show.
Although we’re doing a quiz show i think it was good to analyse Jeremy Kyle show because of the techniques used and how things are filmed, the lighting and other aspects of it. It shows that this is actually quite a difficult show to make and doing a quiz show might be just as hard but at least we know when something is going to happen and it’s easier for people to be prepared rather than talking and never knowing what’s going to happen next.
I picked these two because i enjoy them, also because we’re supposed to analyse a quiz show and another live show. I thought these two were a good choice because 8 out of 10 cats is funny and it’s like what we’re doing and easy to analyse. I picked Jeremy Kyle show because i thought it would be easy to analyse.
8 out of 10 cats:
This starts with vt’s that show percentages, famous people they do this to show what the show is about. Statistics, percentages and stuff like that. It’s also about news and people have to guess what’s been talked the most for the past week. So the opening credits show what the show is about and even the title says so.
Then we see a wide shot of the studio and the teams are sitting they are presented and then host comes in, he comes from the audience and then he stands talks they cut it to a medium close up and only then he sits down and starts the game.
He talks to the contestants and we see medium close ups of each team.
From watching about 10 minutes of the show i thought that they are using six different cameras:
- 2 for team A
- 2 for team B
- 1 for the host
- 1 for the wide shot
This is not just from watching but it’s how most of the quiz shows are done so it’s easy to pick up by watching it anyway.
The teams have the microphones on their eye line, meaning they have the microphone clipped on the side they are most likely to be looking at during the show. I thought the host was meant to have it in the middle but actually he has his microphone on the left side from a camera point of view.
As the shows goes on and it sounds a bit scripted most of what the host says, the camera shots go from team to team mostly using three shots of the whole team, when saying the scores the teams appear in order too. I’d think most of what the contestants say is ad lib so the director has to change cameras as it goes, mostly he anticipates what’s going to happen for an easier job.
On this show there are inserts that appear on the screen in the studio and they also appear on telly for the audience at home to see it better and see what goes on. Each team has an buzzer and they buzz in to say the answer.
By watching this programme i can see how important things like the inserts, the wide shots (which are used to show people at home the whole set and everything that’s going on), the way the script is done has to match everything so there’s continuity. For example the host would make jokes about some news or statistics that were being read.
The lighting on this show is practically one light to the host then one or two for each team. The backlight is set quite low so the people look more interesting than the set and that’s what the quiz shows are about the guests and their reaction that’s why the majority of the shots are shots with the whole team or individual medium close ups; so we see the reaction of each individual of if they lost/won we see their reaction as a team.
Mostly the host is there to present the show, guide the contestants through each round and tell the scores they are the voice people have to listen to. They’re there to make sure that everything goes well rather than make the show about them.
This is how the studio for the quiz show looks:
Overall, I think this show is basically what we are preparing, and I’m glad that they are quite alike it proves that we can be very professional and how much our skills will improve. I like that we’re doing our script according to the theme just like we can see on 8 out of 10 cats. The Show is very well directed, even if there are bloopers that get taken out you can see that everything that’s going on is controlled, each shot of each team is matched so when looking at the TV we see continuity of the shots and the way is filmed. For example if we see an over the shoulder shot of team A it’s most likely to see one on team B as well that matches one another.
Jeremy Kyle show
This a live show that’s based on people’s lives, people go there to talk about their problems and luckily they will get help from the host as they need.
This show hasn’t got teams like a quiz show, here the host stands up walking around the set, while the guests go and sit on the set talking to the host.
This isn’t scripted, they talk about their lives and it’s more ad lib than anything else. There are about 6 cameras that i could count:
- 4 – 2 on each side of the set to get shots of the guests in each side.
- 1 on top(pointing from the set to the audience) to get one of the host
- 1 for a wide shot of everyone (including audience) at the back of the studio.
These cameras are on tripods but every now and then i think the camera men hold the camera to get better shots of people of if they need to film the audience, the host sometimes talks to someone sitting so they need to move to see it.
The shots used are medium close ups of guests, two/three shots if needed. Mostly to capture their emotions, this is because the show is about their lives and when something bad is found about someone people like to see people’s reaction, sometimes they use shots just for the audience to see other people’s reaction too.
They all have Omni-microphones clipped on them in the middle because they look at both sides and at the host who is in front of them, so by having the microphones in the middle of their tops it’s easier to catch all of what they say, and to make sure no other noise is captures (e.g. people breathing, any jewellery, hair hitting the microphone) they are clipped quite far down.
The audience has microphones to be able to listen to them clapping and cheering or ‘booing’’.
In shows like this normally when the host talks to the audience they use a boom to catch their voice, sometimes they have a microphone on their hands t hand to whoever wants to talk, but on Jeremy Kyle the people from the audience that talk are normally people that are related to the guests and have a say on whatever is going on so they a have a clip on mic most of the time.
As this is a show where people don’t quite have turns to talk, sometimes it ends up with two or three people talking at the same time, so the master fader should be faded down and when this happens the host has to calm people down or make them shut up so it’s easier to know what’s going on.
The lighting on the host on this show I’m not sure how it goes because he walks all over the place so they can’t just have the lights up and running on the same place, i think they might have just the studio lit in a way that he can walk and always be seen properly.
The guests have lights pointing at them and we see this in a few of the shots, they have spot lights and fill lights pointing at both sides of the set to make sure everyone is lit properly.
The audience is also lit but not as much as the host and guests.
The host in a programme like this has to listen to people, talk to them ask questions about what they want to do, offer them help (e.g. counselling, DNA tests, lie detector tests.) But most of all keep the situation controlled so there’s no need for security and even so sometimes they have to go on the show to stop abusive people.
The director on this show has to be ready for anything that happen so he can pick the right camera at the right time, unlike a quiz show it’s impossible to know who’s going to talk next, or who’s going to do something. So it’s much more difficult to anticipate what’s happening on this show.
Although we’re doing a quiz show i think it was good to analyse Jeremy Kyle show because of the techniques used and how things are filmed, the lighting and other aspects of it. It shows that this is actually quite a difficult show to make and doing a quiz show might be just as hard but at least we know when something is going to happen and it’s easier for people to be prepared rather than talking and never knowing what’s going to happen next.
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