Rebecca Barrett - TV Production blog

Mood Boards VT Scripts: Storyboards:

What went well? After our jobs were decided myself and Sydney got together to first create the style bible for the show, this consisted of us creating the color scheme and fonts that would be used for the show. This went very well and we worked together really well, which gave both of us great chemistry for working together. Although I was in the graphics team, I didn't know how to create graphics as I had never used photoshop before, luckily, Sydney taught me and within a day I knew how to use the basic elements of Photoshop. Something which I've now downloaded at home and plan to use for my future projects, even after I leave uni. What didn't go well? Nothing really on the production side of graphics went wrong. We had a few stressful weeks towards the end of pre-production as some of the meetings we had with producers weren't clear enough or felt like we were going around in circles for a while, but we all worked through it as a team and we were able to create

For our test shoot, we did a simple staging shoot. This was done with Charley being our director, Ethan, Aodhan, James and Jack being our crew and myself, Sydney, Alyssa and Katie being the stand-ins. For this shoot, we did a basic version of the first act, which would be a test quiz in the bar, to earn some gold as part of the 'game'. It took about 15/20 minutes to set up the light and cameras and then 10/15 minutes to mark out the set on the floor as we had a very limited area. As stand-ins for the contestants, myself, Alyssa and Katie were not given a script (as that ould have the answers to the questions), whereas Reuben was as he played Malaghast. Sydney was also not given a script and was just told to improv as a barman (which meant just pretending to clean an invisible bar). From this experience as being a stand-in, I learned about how much work goes into blocking and rehearsing even a simple quiz scene, even with only a few cameras and lights as well as a non-exis

For our production, I was in the Graphics team with Sydney and our first task was to develop a style guide. This style guide is important to every aspect of the show, as not only will it give us colors for our characters, but also the fonts and logo ideas that we are going for with the show. This initial style bible wasn't discussed with the rest of the production team (including the producers). Myself and Sydney first came up with the color scheme for the logo, through basing it off of the original logo we were given, we decided on gold for our logo color. While we could have gone for orange like the logo was n the beginning, we decided to go for gold as that was a more common color during the Medieval times (in the world the game show is set). The next task we set ourselves was deciding on the color scheme for the show itself - the sets and characters. For the set design, we decided on mute yet realistic colors for all three sets, just so it would make sure that the cha