Weekly Diary

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.