Wednesday, 23 November 2011
Production Diary Week 6/7
Between the 23rd to the 30th of November, we decided to contact the NHS hospital on Oxford Road, when we phoned up, the woman we spoke to gave us an email address to email what we wanted to film and the interview questions and they would send it on to a higher person to find out if its okay. We emailed them in a professional and respectful manor. Since we couldn't use the GVs we have previously filmed, we come together to come up with some effective and useful GV ideas. We decided to drive on a day that everyone could come, to the closest student based area, which was Fallowfield. We plan to go around the 12th of December. We finished off the Program Proposal and the Running order and also got the Title Sequence paperwork finished too.
Monday, 21 November 2011
live Multi-cam music shoot
On the 8th of November we filmed a 3 multi cam on two different musicians that came into our studio and shot a live shoot that got uploaded to ustream. The main role i did in this week was the vision mixer, I felt very confident in what i was doing and think i did a pretty good job at vision mixing. It was fairly straight forward and just listened to the directors orders, such as camera 1, fade overlay, take overlay, camera 3, 2, 1, 2, 1, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 1, 3, 2 then fade to black basically.
Week 2
Week 2 i started off as the floor manager which i felt again confident with, although i didnt know what i had to do exactly as the floor manager but 'ey practise makes perfect :) in the PM shoots i shadowed the sound technician and then took over on that. It was pretty straight forward but i didnt set it up or anything so thats something i may need to do next weekend. I had a minor problem with the sound as the second shoot we did with me as the sound technician there was no sound at all that we couldnt sort out, but a simple turn off then back on again fixed the problem.
Week 2
Week 2 i started off as the floor manager which i felt again confident with, although i didnt know what i had to do exactly as the floor manager but 'ey practise makes perfect :) in the PM shoots i shadowed the sound technician and then took over on that. It was pretty straight forward but i didnt set it up or anything so thats something i may need to do next weekend. I had a minor problem with the sound as the second shoot we did with me as the sound technician there was no sound at all that we couldnt sort out, but a simple turn off then back on again fixed the problem.
Saturday, 19 November 2011
Production Diary Week 5
On the 16th of November the main thing we did on the news package was we filmed a few interviews of students who drink alcohol, we asked them several questions to get a look on what kind of lifestyle they lived. We asked questions such as:
- Do you drink alcohol?
- How much roughly a week do you drink?
- How much do you spend a week on alcohol?
- How did you start drinking?
- Do you know the risks of drinking?
- Are you planning on quitting?
Friday, 11 November 2011
Production Diary Week 3/4
Between the 2nd of November to the 9th, we had done most of the research we needed, and started planning how our news package/live show would be layout and how it was going to be structured. We had an idea of going to the Manchester Royal Infirmary on Oxford Road, to ask if we could film a few GVs of the hospital and maybe if it was allowed, to interview a member of staff there to ask them how many patients on a Friday and Saturday night are related to alcohol abuse, how much binge drinking costs the NHS and if they drink themselves and how much if so? We acknowledge that there are some limits and some boundaries within filming at a hospital due to faces being shown and patients wanting to keep their stuff confidential. Therefore we are not putting all our hopes on this, we do have a backup. We also got the majority of our Program Proposal done, but due to not all members of the group in, we couldn't finish it all. I started the running order, but needed to add a few additional details.
Wednesday, 9 November 2011
Programme Proposal
Programme Outline
Our programme is about alcohol and how students are binge drinking and the negatives on this e.g health issues, drink related deaths and accidents. We are going to film Withington Community hospital and interview a member of staff who works there on their views of drinking. We are also getting some GV's of this member of staff working there then cutting to a student who lives near the nightlife of Manchester for example Fallowfield and asking them some questions on drinking, such as how much they drink? Do they know the risks of drinking? Do they know the statistics of theses risks? Etc. At the same time we will film some more GV's of clubs, pubs and some local corner shops that sell GV's such as Baabar, Gaffs corner shop and even Orange Grove.
Target Audience
Our primary target audience is aged from 18+ but ideally it is aimed at students so the age of 18-24 who either have experienced the night life of manchester or who is still living the night life to get a look on how they see it and if they agree to trying to cut down on binge drinking. We acknowledge that there are a lot of people who drink illegally who are under the age of 18 and causes worry of how they are getting their alcohol, but at the same time this programme campaign appeals to this secondary target audience as well.
Programme Duration and broadcast video format
The programme duration is any time between 4-5 minutes long. The broadcast video format is in flash which is set in the Tricaster. You can download the XML files with Tricaster settings from Ustream and the XML file will tell Adobe Media Coder to compress the video feed from the Tricaster into a flash video stream which is sent straight onto the Ustream channel.
Progam Broadcast time it will be aired:
The broadcast will be roughly aired for rehearsal on the 11th of January 2012 at around 17:30pm. The production of the broadcast will be aired on the 19th of January 2012 at roughly around 17:30pm.
Content:
-VT Subject
The subject is about alcohol and student binge drinking which is based on students who have lived the night life or who are still living the lifestyle in Manchester. See Programme outline above.
- Guest Questions
There are two main sets of questions we are asking, one set for a member of staff at the Withington Community Hospital and a set of questions to ask students who drink and go to clubs and pubs.
Member of staff questions:
Production Style
Title Sequence:
The title sequence will be a black screen with the title of the broadcast "Alcohol Awareness Campaign" and will then fade to the live interview in the studio.
End Credits:
The end credits again will fade to a black screen which will then start running a scrolling script with content based on the jobs and roles that took part in the production, such as director, camera operators and guests.
Set Design:
The presenter would be sat at a desk in front of a window in room 109 and then there is 2 one arm seat's for the live guests. We have a plan B incase this doesn't work out with lighting or any other problem, plan B is to face it a different direction with a black board behind the presenter and possibly with a poster or two behind him on the black board.
Our programme is about alcohol and how students are binge drinking and the negatives on this e.g health issues, drink related deaths and accidents. We are going to film Withington Community hospital and interview a member of staff who works there on their views of drinking. We are also getting some GV's of this member of staff working there then cutting to a student who lives near the nightlife of Manchester for example Fallowfield and asking them some questions on drinking, such as how much they drink? Do they know the risks of drinking? Do they know the statistics of theses risks? Etc. At the same time we will film some more GV's of clubs, pubs and some local corner shops that sell GV's such as Baabar, Gaffs corner shop and even Orange Grove.
Target Audience
Our primary target audience is aged from 18+ but ideally it is aimed at students so the age of 18-24 who either have experienced the night life of manchester or who is still living the night life to get a look on how they see it and if they agree to trying to cut down on binge drinking. We acknowledge that there are a lot of people who drink illegally who are under the age of 18 and causes worry of how they are getting their alcohol, but at the same time this programme campaign appeals to this secondary target audience as well.
Programme Duration and broadcast video format
The programme duration is any time between 4-5 minutes long. The broadcast video format is in flash which is set in the Tricaster. You can download the XML files with Tricaster settings from Ustream and the XML file will tell Adobe Media Coder to compress the video feed from the Tricaster into a flash video stream which is sent straight onto the Ustream channel.
Progam Broadcast time it will be aired:
The broadcast will be roughly aired for rehearsal on the 11th of January 2012 at around 17:30pm. The production of the broadcast will be aired on the 19th of January 2012 at roughly around 17:30pm.
Content:
-VT Subject
The subject is about alcohol and student binge drinking which is based on students who have lived the night life or who are still living the lifestyle in Manchester. See Programme outline above.
- Guest Questions
There are two main sets of questions we are asking, one set for a member of staff at the Withington Community Hospital and a set of questions to ask students who drink and go to clubs and pubs.
Member of staff questions:
- How many drink related cases do use get a week?
- What do you suggest to minimise these cases?
- Whats the main age group for these patients?
- How much does binge drinking cost the NHS to treat these patients?
- Do you drink? If so how much a week?
- Do you drink?
- How much a week do you spend on Alcohol?
- Do you know the risks of Alcohol?
- Do you know the stats on drink related deaths?
- What are your views on trying to cut down binge drinking?
- Do you think you personally binge drink?
- Have you ever had Alcohol poisoning?
Production Style
Title Sequence:
The title sequence will be a black screen with the title of the broadcast "Alcohol Awareness Campaign" and will then fade to the live interview in the studio.
End Credits:
The end credits again will fade to a black screen which will then start running a scrolling script with content based on the jobs and roles that took part in the production, such as director, camera operators and guests.
Set Design:
The presenter would be sat at a desk in front of a window in room 109 and then there is 2 one arm seat's for the live guests. We have a plan B incase this doesn't work out with lighting or any other problem, plan B is to face it a different direction with a black board behind the presenter and possibly with a poster or two behind him on the black board.
New News Package Idea
Well we decided to narrow down our idea of the drinking and smoking campaign down to just drinking as we wouldn't have enough time and far too much footage/research to squeeze into a 2 minute package. Me, Mikel, Luke and Imogen decided to just focus on an alcohol campaign.
We are looking into filming Withington hospital walk in clinic and asking if a member of staff would mind being interviewed about our alcohol campaign, which ties in with binge drinking, knowing daily limits, health issues, how binge drinking affects the NHS.
Here is some research we did on alcohol and binge drinking. http://firsttimenewbie.blogspot.com/2011/10/drink-smoke-awareness-news-package.html
We came up for a name for the News package which is "Drink awareness campaign" and a general target audience of 18+ although we recognise that there are a high percentage of people under the legal age who do drink alcohol on the weekends but have decided not to go in that directions as it's a totally different subject to what we are focusing on.
As well as interviewing a member of the Withington hospital if possible we are looking to shoot a lot of GV's such as clubs, pubs and the local corner shops that also sell alcohol to a lot of students around Fallowfield.
Possible questions we came up with are:
(Withington hospital member questions)
How many drink related cases do you get a week?
What do you suggest to minimise these cases?
Whats the main age group for these cases?
How much does binge drinking cost to the NHS to take care of these patients?
Do you drink? If so how much/units a week?
The questions we would ask the general public which we are mainly aiming at students are:
Do you drink? If so is it on a regular basis?
How much do you drink?
Change of plan:
After much thought, we decided to change the plans of our news package just a bit. We realised that our news package should last around 1-2 minutes, so it would be more realistic if we stuck to one topic out of the two, either drinking or smoking. We decided to stay with drinking because it was more practical and offered more directions in ways we could do our news package.
We are looking into filming Withington hospital walk in clinic and asking if a member of staff would mind being interviewed about our alcohol campaign, which ties in with binge drinking, knowing daily limits, health issues, how binge drinking affects the NHS.
Here is some research we did on alcohol and binge drinking. http://firsttimenewbie.blogspot.com/2011/10/drink-smoke-awareness-news-package.html
We came up for a name for the News package which is "Drink awareness campaign" and a general target audience of 18+ although we recognise that there are a high percentage of people under the legal age who do drink alcohol on the weekends but have decided not to go in that directions as it's a totally different subject to what we are focusing on.
As well as interviewing a member of the Withington hospital if possible we are looking to shoot a lot of GV's such as clubs, pubs and the local corner shops that also sell alcohol to a lot of students around Fallowfield.
Possible questions we came up with are:
(Withington hospital member questions)
How many drink related cases do you get a week?
What do you suggest to minimise these cases?
Whats the main age group for these cases?
How much does binge drinking cost to the NHS to take care of these patients?
Do you drink? If so how much/units a week?
The questions we would ask the general public which we are mainly aiming at students are:
Do you drink? If so is it on a regular basis?
How much do you drink?
Change of plan:
After much thought, we decided to change the plans of our news package just a bit. We realised that our news package should last around 1-2 minutes, so it would be more realistic if we stuck to one topic out of the two, either drinking or smoking. We decided to stay with drinking because it was more practical and offered more directions in ways we could do our news package.
Friday, 28 October 2011
Production Diary Week 2
On the 26th of October, we again carried on more research to make sure our news package and live show was fact full and up to date with the new facts and information on alcohol and smoking awareness. We as a group spoke some more on the issue of whether to do a news package on alcohol and smoking or just alcohol, we are leaning more towards the idea of just alcohol as there is way too much information to fill a minutes worth of VT on alcohol and smoking. We also talked about what roles each member of our group wants to do, there are 4 roles and 4 group members the roles are director, vision mixer, floor manager and producer. We decided to get everyone to say what roles they would like to do, then take it from there, luckily enough, we all chose a role that no one else chose so there wasn't much debating about roles. I am the director, Mikael is the vision mixer, Luke is the floor manager and Imogen is the producer. We found out today that each role has certain pieces of paper work they have to hand in, and some paper work the whole group have to hand in as a team, such as the program proposal, running order, signal pathway and the production diary. As a Director, I have to hand in, a program proposal, running order, camera scripts and a title sequence.
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