The new episode of Winol Life is now ready for you to watch. This week has been a high success compare to our last show. The organisation, preparation, and the overall outlook of the show improved dramatically. We should all be proud of our hard work and great effort.
This week we were honored to have the editor of Hampshire Life magazine on our show. Elizabeth Barnett kindly took out of her busy schedule to join our on-sofa discussion. Elizabeth was very nice and chatty, which made the show look so professional, relaxed and informal, which is what we are aiming for. She gave a very good constructive criticism to our features reporters but also gave all of us a really good advice on how to get into the industry after we graduate. I think many of us felt more confident about the future after our lovely chat with Elizabeth.
We used a variety of shots this time. We used 4 cameras instead of 3. The fourth camera was a PD170 that we had plug into an OB box outside the studio to make it work. That camera was set especially for the short yoga show. I thought it would be a good idea to have one of the presenters demonstrate yoga. I thought it would look like one of big morning shows such Daybreak. We also used radio mics, rather than long poles with gun mics on the top of them. The studio as a whole took a long time to set up, as in terms of production I would consider this show to be the most complicated one out of all the other things we do, which is Sportsweek and the news bulletin.
I also slightly changed the style of WINOL LIFE, trying to give it a little bit more character and making it look like a professional chat show. I knew we were lacking something last time we filmed it. This time I added headlines- a 'coming up on the show' character, which I think is essential to keep the audience interested and intrigued. I also made new WINOL LIFE strap lines for the in studio guest as well as the reporters, which I think also looks quite effective, but please do give your opinions.
The problem of the sofas:
THERE IS NO PROBLEM! No longer, anyway. We had a slight issue in the first show, as there were no sofas on the campus available for us till I spoke to Tommy Geddes, and who kindly let us borrow the sofas for the first show. However, he wanted us find out own sofas after that which was impossible. We even tried to get some money which would allow us to go to IKEA and choose our own perfect sofas, but that wasn't an option. After negotiating with Tommy, he allowed us have the sofas for the rest of this term, so for the next 3 episodes of WINOL LIFE
Elizabeth arrived at 1.30 and I took her to the news room where our WINOL LIFE team was waiting to meet her. I introduced her to everyone and showed her around our news rooms. Soon after we went through the script explaining what the show was going to look like. We explained the questions that we were going to ask her about her and we also showed her our features packages to help her get an idea of what feedback she would be giving live in the studio.
Once we were in the studio we didn't have any technical difficulties in the gallery (Hallelujah!) therefore the show went smoothly and fairly quickly. Elizabeth is a natural speaker so she seemed like the task of giving feedback was a simple task and she did it brilliantly.
The post production was a simple process once again. The show was 15 minutes long and my aim was to have only 13 minutes which would be simple to upload onto, whereas 15 minutes is too long and we would use the good quality like last time and I wanted to avoid that. Cutting over 2 minutes seemed almost impossible. But with Chris' help I managed to cut out the most unnecessary bits.
Overall, brilliant show and brilliant production work so WELL DONE everyone and thank you for your hard work.
Hope you enjoy the show, please leave comments, critics and thoughts.
Wednesday 2 November 2011
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Hello Justi
ReplyDeleteI do agree that this edition was really very professional and interesting with a relaxed style and very good scripting. Questions were asked which a viewer would like to ask and also it was obvious that everyone was enjoying it which lightens up everything and reduces stress and mistakes.
Lucky break for the reporters who went up to London for the yoga and film reports both excellent, interesting and topical subjects.
I have often sat through a programme just to see the last item so the 'coming up later' idea is very appropriate to hold viewers.
From your enthusiastic description it is obvious that all the detailed preparation, (which I see is loads of work) and considered use of equipment paid off which proves that foresight is better than hindsight. We cannot always prepare for any eventuality, but we can try!
Well done to the whole team and keep it together for next time and hopefully the next guest will be as supportive and positive about what you are doing/achieving and also give hints for getting on in the profession out in the wider world soon.
So happy this went so well, love ever Cait XXX