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My other idea is doing something I have wanted to do for a while, a massive gameshow which has no main idea but sounds like it could be good as I have seen people like me do a gameshow and would be able to look at theirs and see if there's anything I can improve from there and see what it's like. I am planning to mind map those ideas soon and see what I can do with them. I have now decided that a gameshow is the idea I want to go with because it's something that is fun and I feel Live TV production is my strong suit on this course alongside being something I can do well with setting up.

So for my idea, I want to do something like the chase which is why it is called the sprint. I want it to be where you start in the first box and then have to begin slowly moving forward until the first one makes it there. I want the questions to be music based since its something my contestants will know a lot about. The plan is to have four contestants. A moving main camera that will have closeups of the contestants as they answer questions and a wide camera of the contestants along with a presenter cam with myself as the presenter. I also want to have one shotgun microphone as a backup for the entire set and then Lavaliere microphones for everyone on set so that I have the best audio I can and it will be crisp for my audience to hear. For lighting, I want to have different colours for the different sectors that the contestants will move into as it will add a bit more life to my set in my opinion and give a lot more colour to my set. 

For my inspiration, I have been inspired by The Chase an independent game show done by a YouTuber. I am inspired by these because The Chase has a good look to the show with enough lighting and a diverse set of lighting. I also picked the you tubers gameshow because it is a perfect example of what graphics could look good, what lighting and microphones work well in the studio and backdrops that could work well for my set all on a low budget which is something I am going to be working on.

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Advertisement - I have decided I am going to add an advertisement and I am going to do a Snickers advert that will be baked into the project being a homage to the first project I did and I am going to focus on the band as a homage to my music video since I will have myself playing the guitar and it sounding horrible and then have the drummer say it sounds crap, your not you when you are hungry have snickers, I eat the snickers and then the actual guitarist says better and starts playing properly before cutting to your, not you when your hungry, snickers. I think this is a good idea because with this I am also able to incorporate one of the ideas I had originally had for my FMP and I had in my mind map so this is the best of both worlds. I have picked the Snickers advertisement because it also fits into my age group as they would be the people to want this sweet type of chocolate so the advertisement will fit in with my work and advertise to the right audience. This advertisement I would also hope that the audience will build a personal relationship with the people in the ad through their funniness and this will make them want the same product that these people have.

Introduction

For my intro, I want to present it as a very fast-paced introduction having the graphics move across the screen as the sprint name comes into place and is ready to go. I think I am going to use blue and white in the intro as I do not want the intro to be too dark or it won't fit with the rest of the project. I want the production to be very fast-paced since if it fast paced my audience will stay interested and I will be able to keep a good hold of their attention. I want to hold their attention in the intro because if it gets them interested I will use audience reception Theory making them into an active audience throughout the project which will all start with the introduction.

Week 1 (Project Proposal Plan)

This week I decided that I was going to really narrow down my idea and a title for my project so I decided to go with the title The Sprint as a play on the chase that sounds very similar but still shows that there is some sort of difference and while trying to narrow down my idea I decided to make a mind map that would help me during this time while I was narrowing everything down. This was important because this mind map helped me work out a clear direction and therefore was very useful for my project.

Week 2 (Project Proposal)

This week I think it went well since I have got my proposal done which I think looks good. The only thing I think I might change about it is that I want to try and cut down how many words I have to make sure I am not over any word limits. I have also managed to begin working on my research for my idea which puts me a week ahead allowing me more time for more research which I feel I will need because I think if I use research into different shows it will make my work look much better as I can incorporate different aspects of different shows. This is important because as a part of this, I had too find out my target audience which was useful as I knew who I was trying to cater my project to.

Week 3 (begin research for my idea)

Now this was a week to begin research but I got a much better opportunity that I think will pay off in the long run. I was able to go to Birmingham City University, where I managed to do some recording and make a live TV show there where I was a vision mixer the first time around which has further proved why I should not use vision mixing and it's too small of a project for it. I was also a presenter which has now given me some tips for my projects as I was given some tips to show a little bit more personality while presenting and don't just focus on what's in front of me and not be afraid to look around. This was all very important for my project because of how many tips it gave me for my project.

Week 4

This week I have developed my evidence by looking at some Live productions which have been partly useful as I have seen some work with stinger transitions that I may decide to use in my work and some scripting techniques that will help my work. Some of it was not useful because I think I had started to look at the wrong sort of Live TV having dived quite heavily into live TV using a vision mixer which I am not planning to use at any point so it might have made more sense to not look into that part of this sort of TV production so next time I will try not to focus on that. I have also decided to begin to work on other little bits of pre-production and do a test shoot on Thursday which will allow me to see what my camera shots look like in person and how everything looks in my work and what I else I need to work on before the actual filming.

Week 5 (Pre Production)

This week I have continued to work on pre-production this week having finished my script, call sheet and risk assessments along with a storyboard meaning I will be able to shoot my advertisement during the next week, have a week off for easter and then come back to begin filming my TV production which I have booked in with my actors for when it needs to be filmed. This was important work because my risk assessment helped make sure that what I wanted to do on set was actually attainable and would still be good enough to keep my actors safe.

Week 6 (Filming)

This week I flimed my production for my project. This could have gone better but it was not terrible . I used a microphone connecter to record the contestant's audio which was useful since the contestant's audio was very concise. What was not useful was that I forgot to make sure the audio connectors were on for the video meaning the microphones did not work. Although my planning saved me here as I had planned questions for a second backup episode so I recorded that making sure the audio did work and that did go well. I also lost my cameraman which was bad but I recovered by moving the cameras myself and using one of the camera microphones as my microphone since we could not get another wireless microphone. Overall this was good and the chaos was not too hard to control but good enough that it added the humour that I wanted which was useful as I think that is the humour my target audience would like

Week 7 (Filming)

This week I will film my advertisements plus some voiceovers which I can use in my work to cover up any little bits I cannot use and fade us into the ad break. I have managed to now make some transitions and the introduction to my game show which is good because I am ready to add them to my project which should look good. These were very important to my project and I have had some others look at them and get their opinion to see what they think about the colours and what they think about the logo and everyone seems to agree with the blue colour scheme that I have decided to go with.

Week 8 (Editing)

During this week I finished my edit I was not able to do my advertisement and is something I will reflect on as I feel it was not realistic to try and make both in the ten-week timescale that I had. I did finish my editing for my first project though and with that done I want to get feedback from my peers about it.

Week 9 (Evaluation)

After getting feedback from my peers I have decided that I am going to reshoot as although I think I like my project idea and concept I feel that the execution was poor and mainly the way it was shot and the audio was not up to the standard I would want them for the project. In this reshoot, I am going to move around several things having the contestants stand still answering the questions so I can minimize the movement of the camera. I also brought the number of contestants down from 4 to 2 meaning that first of all I could still be in shot and the microphones were much simpler to set up meaning I could have clear audio that made sense which was another criticism I had from critics when I showed them the video. Overall this is now going to be the worst music gameshow ever as considering neither of my contestants was able to answer any questions which was a problem I had to overcome in the shoot by giving them extra points in the final question I think this will work and importantly my target audience will appreciate the production quality and the funniness of that they are both terrible at answering the questions.

Week 10 (Evaluation)

Here in my final week, I finished my editing doing some graphics and titles which made my work look a little bit nicer and then also doing some colour grading and adding some intro music which really helped my project and really gave my project the pop that it needed in the end. I also sorted out my evaluation which looks good meaning I feel I am finished with my project.

Notes from the pitch for Primary Research:

Pitch 04.03.24. Gavin, you want to create a quiz show using the TV studio. This ambitious project will require a lot of planning and crew, and you need to ensure the kit, rooms and actors are all booked. You are basing “The Sprint” on “The Chase” and intend to be the quiz master yourself. We discussed the importance of lighting and a variety of camera angles, as well as a script to ensure you maintain a comedic aspect. You have evidenced an Action plan and showed shot ideas for existing game shows in your pitch. Your target will be young adults and will be music-based. You need to ensure your actors are reliable, and that you film enough footage for editing and continuity. This is an ambitious project, Gavin, and I am looking forward to seeing the final show. 

So I think I have been given some good information from this and will try and incorporate a time limit for the game show after reading this so I can keep with the continuity and have enough footage filmed to fill the 15 minutes with an intro attached. I was also told that "The issues I see with this are making sure everybody is there when they need to be there and making sure the camera is set up and capturing the reaction shot being set up and that you do not have to capture after the fact". This is a quote I will take with me and was very useful to me because I do need to make sure I have all of my contestants here on time and I will have all of my cameras set up and ready to get any shots I need even if they need some cropping after the fact.

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