Live Studio Production: Lecture

Live Studio Production: Lecture - Workshop

VT or not VT?

- Can add information to the show
- Helps with pace and to keep interest from the audience

Why use them?

- Purpose can vary
- Quiz show - Provide package for question
- Discussion programme

- The VT should feel part of the rest of the programme - style and approach
- It should add to the studio content and have a specific purpose
- Just like any other film, they take considerable development and organisation eg Research, Casting, Scripting

Graphics

- Opening titles
- Stings
- Subtitles - AKA lower thirds or captions
- On screen stats/ pictorials/ scores
- Credits

Essentials

- Accuracy
- Branding/ tone
- Clarity
- layout/ composition - 16:9 safe zone
- Font
- Purpose
- Synergy - Images/ words

Text

- Simple, bold typeface - avoid thin, elaborate lettering
- Limit number of fonts used across the production
- Letter less than 1/10th screen height is difficult to read
- Beware of abbreviations
- Leave space between title lines of about 1/2 to 2/3 of height of capital letters
- Warm bright colours good if you need it to be attention grabbing
- NB - On screen time - Read it twice

Backgrounds

- Consider the impact of complex backgrounds - you don't want to detract from the focus of the piece
- Equally a varied background can make lettering hard go read

Trends

- Technological advances and fashions influence how, where and what graphics are used

Promos and trailers

- Be creative in how we reach the audience
- Make sure we know who they are

Comments

Documentary unit: Script first draft

Documentary unit: Jackie interview

So we could get an outside view on fake fear, we were able to secure an interview with an actual adrenaline junkie, only thing was, she's 73! She was amazing to interview, and her answers were so descriptive, which gave us some area to play around with during the edit. We needed to rearrange the house to better suit an interview, and when we realised that we would have to do that, we were glad that we were filming in one of our own homes instead of Jackie's house, or in a public area, as we then had control over the whole environment. Jackie was a pleasure to interview, as she was very relaxed and had a great sense of humour to match.

Decision evaluation

Decision evaluation During the writing phase, I drew inspiration from the surroundings at my dad’s house, as there is an orchard on one side and a field on the other. This inspired me because I could imagine something happening within the orchard, and no one knowing due to them being well hidden. This was the starting point for my script, so I needed to develop a story from this. The idea of a murder came from the effectiveness of the orchard hiding whoever was in it, so I thought that this was the perfect place for a murderer to commit his crime. In wanted my story to have a twist, so I thought of a person stumbling across the murder scene, and the killer giving the innocent person a choice of either possible death, or helping with the body and walking away. I thought that this was a good idea as it is a scenario not often seen in films, so was a unique twist. Between the scripts that I wrote for my short film ‘Decision’, I had to change quite a lot in order to make it more e...

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