Rebecca Barrett - TV Production blog

Brainstorming: Shortly after our briefing, we got into a group that consisted of myself, Carla and Jack and began brainstorming about possible ideas for our piece. The three ideas we could pick from (we could either do one story or do two) were environment, sleep or veganisim. Our first initial ideas, environment, came from a newspaper article Carla had read which talked about petrol possibly coming to an end in just sixteen years. We ran with this initial idea as environment and it's protection are big in the media at the moment, with Greta Thunberg being a widely talked-about advocate at the time of researching for our stories. Jack came up with a story idea for veganisim as he had already done some research into the topics, prompting him to want to create a historical focused piece of how it was perceived back in the 1980's hen it first came about compared to now, where more people are adopting a vegan lifestyle. During his 'pitch' to us, he talked about the ef

This Morning: This show is a breakfast TV show broadcasted on ITV. Image:  This Morning logo. (2019). [image] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Morning_(TV_programme)#/media/File:This_Morning_TV_Logo.png [Accessed 13 Nov. 2019]. Typical structure features: Live and features news Topical items Showbiz Style and beauty Home and garden Food Health Real-life ...and more Focuses: - Presenter: A lot of the show is presenter-lead, with shows mostly being presented by two duos: Phillip Schofield, Holly Willoughby, and Ruth Langsford, Eamonn Holmes. For this show, all of the presenting is done within the ITV studio, for Holly and Phill, much of their presenting is done through either having live-guests through small pieces or through interviews with special guests on couches. Because of this, the audience feels drawn in and the presenters are friendly and have good chemistry together, this is because the show isn't as formal and 'scripted' as B

The story being analyzed:  From poverty to Politics: Meet Brazils AOC - BBC News (13th November 2019)   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y-gRsBPqec When watching this through, I focused on several things that I knew would be key towards our own news piece: Camera - shaky camera, possibly hand-held, general view shots to fill in sequences and to cut between different pieces A studio presenter Reporter delivers his speech clear way - voice-over, he is off-location of the filming but still inside in the country. Image:  BBC (2019).  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcqk3W87Sw4 . [image].  Presentation techniques: For this piece, even though the presenter, Robin Brant , was not directly on-site, most likely due to the dangerous situation the camera crew was in themselves, it still showed him presenting to a camera still within the city, calmly and clearly. This shows he is well-versed to be delivering a news piece like this even though he is away from the 'action'.

For my analysis, I decided to look at a BBC news package as that was the style of presentation we were going for with our piece. On my first watch, I noticed that the first thing that appears on screen is a presenter lead intro before switching over to an on-location reporter speaking directly to the audience. This boosts audience engagement as you feel as though you are being directly spoken to and informed of the story by the reporter. It then switches to a pre-recorded piece that focuses heavily on recorded sequences being intercut with interview footage as well as graphics that link directly to the story. This image is from 'BBC News - UK Election: The View From Leeds' - 7th November 2019 Screenshot by me As I know our piece was going to be similar to how the above package was presented, I wanted to focus on analyzing three key aspects, voice-overs, presenting to camera and GV shots (General views). Presenting to the camera: For this, we knew straight a

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Green screen workshop For this workshop, we had the chance to work with green screens for the first time. This was something new to me as I had never used one before. Myself, Carla and Jack got set up in the green room, with Jack being the presenter for our workshop. We did several takes as we were all new to this and had to spend a while getting used to the equipment as well as the teleprompter's speed and how it worked. While we got through the workshop relatively quickly, our next task was to edit the piece. For me, not only had I never used a green screen before, I also hadn't edited one out of a video. So, to help, I looked at a tutorial to help, which broke down the process of GS removal step-by-step. once I got the hang of how to do it, I played around with the settings over and over to develop my skills with it. The below image shows my final result of my green screen edit. For the end effects, while I did play around with the settings, the guide I followe

Story ideas: For our stories, our first brainstorm was to do with sleep disorders and climate change. To help research into why we should do this story, I looked into sites that explored 'new' sleep research about disorders and more.  This research (in my links at the bottom of the page) helped us to form what would be our final story about sleep disorders. This research included general facts and statistics about sleep disorders, while others showed a darker side to sleep disorders, with one website showing that '24% - 31% of men and 9% - 21% of women have obstructive sleep apnea...'. These statistics shocked us, so, we decided to push that story to be a larger part of our package. For another initial story, a story was climate change, however, we didn't really do much research into it as we couldn't really make it fit with our other story. Jack later came to us with the idea of veganism and about how we could explore if veganism is just somethi