Health and Safety

Cables and Wires - Trip Hazard - Tape down cables and wires.

Tripods and Cameras - Heavy cameras and teleprompter could cause a tripod with loose movement locks to fall/tilt forwards or backwards, and as a result of this could cause damage to equipment, equipment to fall off the tripod or cause the whole tripod to topple over if enough weight was a applied - Have a sign, stating to make sure all cameras are locked and cannot be adjusted easily that could cause an accident. Lock all cameras securely.

Overheating - Cameras and lights can overheat, damaging equipment - Make sure all electrical equipment is switched when not in use for long periods of time. Use air conditioning to keep equipment cool, but make sure it's not noisy, for recording purposes.

Secure and Safe Set - If the set is not secure, it could fall apart and damage more of the set, or more seriously injure a person - Make sure staff are assigned to make sure the set is safe and secure. Also make sure there are medical facilities at hand in case of any accidents.

Script

Introduction

Jude: Hello and welcome to the 1.5 show, I'm Jude Leigh-Kaufman

Jack Branchflower: and I'm Jack Branchflower, and were back giving you the down low on this week's news stories, and trying to work out if they were written by a 5 year old or just someone with no common sense.

Jude: Before we kick off today's stories, we've got a special guest in the studio, Mr Jordan Essex is here and he'll be filling us in about his new film, a film that's been commented on saying '' is he for real ? this is actually a film ? ''

Jack: So let's start it off with the news.

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Guest Of The Week

Jude: Now for our guest of the week. He's new film has been called ' this film is worse than the titanic remake '' and movie go-er's have been seen walking out of the cinema, with one saying ' we didn't even make it past the first 10 minutes ' when asked why, he just pointed at the title. 

Jack: and that title is Reem Attack, a film that is basically Mr Jordan Essex just saying Reem in every scene, once even in another accent, which may surprise people , as we thought he could do no other than just touch his hair.

Jude: Here to defend his own film, is the man himself, Jordan Essex.

- Jordan walks on set, takes seat next to hosts-

Jack: So jordan good to have to you here, now what do you say to these reviews of your film, which apparently only took a couple of hours to film ?

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Band introduction

Jack: Now we've got loads of comments coming in about Jordan Essex's comments about not knowing who Gaddafi is, and thinking he was a brand, but while we get them all in, it's time for some music.

Jude: Our entertainment this week, apart from the mocking of Mr Essex, come from a local Band, Dead Baby Birds. The group came together in 2009 covering punk, hard rock and metal, and then went on to producing their own songs. Jack you've heard a few of their songs, any good ?

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Ending

Jude: And I'm afraid thats all we've got time for this week, a big thanks to Jordan Essex, who film continues to be unseen by the smart people in Essex, and all of the country for that matter

Jack: We'll be back next saturday at an earlier time of 9.30 as apparently XFactor will be having a shock twist in the show, and word just in, the twist is that they may actually have people on the show that can sing, and don't have a dead parent, dead arm or aren't completely mental.

Jude: Till then, Thanks to Dead Baby Birds who will be playing us out with their take on a classic. Goodnight!

Jack: Goodbye!

Equipment List

Video Camera(s) - 3

Tele Prompter - 1

Lighting Desk -1

Vision Mixing Desk - 1

Sound Engineering Desk - 1

Tie Microphones - 4

Headsets - 6

Macs - 1

Mugs - 2

Headphones - 1

Boxing Gloves - 1

Hosts Desk - 1

2 Seated Couch with Cushions - 1

Backdrops - 2

Production Progress

These past few weeks me and my class have been rehearsing our production. In the 1st few weeks or our rehearsals we hadn't had a script yet because it takes time to prepare, so we just had to improvise. At 1st these improvisational rehearsals worked successfully and it was good practice. But after a while it got a bit tedious. This s because no one liked the script so it had to be scrapped and re-written. This wasted time and reduced the amount of organised run throughs we had. This was also the case because of teacher absences. Of course the teacher cannot help being ill on these dates, but the director and producer were not reliable enough to continue working without assisstance.

When our rehearsals became more organised, with a rough script and coloured lighting, we decided to involve back drops. But unfortunatly this took over 3/4's of our lesson and as a result we were not able to rehearse.

Further more we experienced many technical difficulties, including faulty microphones, colour correcting cameras, faulty tele prompter, faulty vt segments and cut aways and more... Which all of which we left to the last minute to fix, therefore making the final production a rushed project.

In the last few weeks, we had recorded, edited and sourced all the material necessary to record our final production. But during this time I felt dissappointed in our producer and director because they had let me and the class down. The producer failed to keep us on track and organised and often used the excuse he had work on a certain day, so he couldn't complete some of the work himself that was related to his role as producer. And the director, all though good at times, failed to use specific terms of media jagen, making it hard for me and others to understand instructions and also at times became dead silent and never gave instructions to any of the camera crew or floor manager. As a result of this we had to improvise and the show may not have been as good as it could have been.

My Role - Camera Operator

Sourced from 'The Production Roles in the TV. Studio' booklet handed out by Steve (Video Lecturer):

"Cameraperson: Go over the shots with director prior to taping... Be familiar with all terms for types of shots, i.e., close up, dolly in, tilt down,etc. Keep tripod adjustments loose enough to move camera upon command with smooth movements... Recieves instructions from director on headsets regarding which shots to line up during taping."

My own Words: My role is to operate the camera, achieving the camera angles asked of me by the director smoothly and accurately on cue. Also due to operating the camera with the tele prompter, i had to be extra careful and make sure the hosts could see the autocue at all times.

Sourced from Skillset - http://www.skillset.org/film/jobs/camera/article_4688_1.asp:

Camera Operators perform a vital role within the camera department on feature films. They support the Director of Photography (DoP or DP), and the Director, by accurately carrying out their instructions regarding shot composition and development. The seamless ease with which the camera moves is key to the narrative flow of feature films, and is the Camera Operators' responsibility. They are usually the first people to use the camera's eye piece to assess how all the elements of performance, art direction, lighting, composition and camera movement come together to create the cinematic experience.
The DoP or Director often requests a specific Camera Operator, who in turn makes recommendations about the rest of the Camera and Grip Departments. The work is physically demanding, and requires high levels of strength and stamina. Hours are long (12-14 hours a day), and some foreign travel may be required, involving long periods spent away from base.

Class Production Roles

Producer- Jordan

Director- Lewis

Floor Manager- Casey

Script Writers- Ellie

Hosts- Jack and Jude

Camera operators- Tim (me), Rebecca, Jorge

Tele prompter- Christina

Vsion Mixer- Freddie

Lighting- Hope

Title Sequence- Ben

Graphics- Jordan

Sound- Harold

The 1.5 Show running order

Title sequence

Introduction from presenters

Small quantity of news

Introduce Mit

Mit's vt segment

Interview with Mit

More news (funny story)

Introduce Charlie

Interview Charlie

Outro

Band play with rolling credits

Finalising Multi-Camera Production

'The 1.5 Show'

• Magazine style show
• 2 Hosts
• 2 Guests
• 3 cameras (multi-camera) 1 Camera broadcasted a side on shot of the studio floor and close ups on guests. A 2nd camera broadcasted a side on shot of studio floor and (side) close ups of hosts. And a 3rd camera broadcasted a close up of hosts and a wide shot of the whole studio floor (Hosts and guests). The 3rd camera also was equipped with with a teleprompt which provided the hosts with a script to be read whilst looking at the camera.
• Dress Code - Casual clothing
• Purple/Pink lighting, this was 'The 1.5 Show's' colour scheme.
• Pre-recorded and edited video segments to introduce guests.
• VFX - Show Titles and Credits
• General news and gossip
• Music Band
• Props: pens, paper, glasses/mugs

Finalising Multi-Camera Production

After separating into mini-groups to make our own seprate ideas for a multi-camera live television production (Brainstorming and powerpoint), the whole class gathered round to organize our official production. This involved incorporating ideas from each mini-group, and assigning roles to members in the class.

We decided what style the show was going to be, the layout of the set, backdrops, external video footage (cut aways), how many guests and who they would be, how many hosts there would be and finally what would be involved in the show to keep it running smoothly for 10-15 minutes.