Connor Winfield TV production

Overall, I have learnt numerous things over this course, both about being a camera operator and researcher, and how it feels to work on a live studio set. It has been a great experience and it is one that I have very much enjoyed, and it has also made me lean towards pursuing a career in being either being a camera operator or a researcher.  If I were to do this project again, I would maybe try and change some shots from my camera, but other than that, I would not change anything that I have done, as I feel that the work that I put into the project greatly helped the rest of the group

The day of the show was a nervous one, due to the pressure everyone was feeling. We were all prepared, but it was the fact that the day was finally here that was unreal.  The show went off without any problems and was a success. The live audience, made up of parents of the crew and contributors to the show, all loved the show and had many good things to say about it. 

Due to the poor quality of the footage from the first shoot day, we were given the opportunity to re shoot that scene, which was very lucky, as we were only supposed to have access to the presenters for those two days. We used the same camera that we used at the University shoot, as that footage came out at a very high quality.  We went back to Empire and basically filmed the exact same shots that we had done a few weeks ago, as we had been told that the film was good, except for the quality. Due to us all knowing what we were going to be filming, we managed to get all the shots that we needed in just over an hour

The second day of the Promotions shoot took place at the Rochester campus of UCA. This shoot started off really badly, due to the amount of problems that we had encountered. The first of these problems was the fact that for some reason, the footage from the previous day was very poor quality when it was transfered onto a laptop, despite it looking fine on the camera display on the day of the shoot. Because of this, a member of the Promotions team needed to go to Maidstone Studios and pick up another camera, as we did not want to use the same camera again just in case the second day's footage turned out the same.  The second problem of the day was the fact that as people arrived late, due to traffic and having to go and get another camera. Because of this, we missed our filming slot in one of the fashion design rooms, as we were planning on shooting a quick scene before lectures started at 10:00. Because people were late, we couldn't film in time. When we were all fina

The actual promotions shoot took place today, with the presenters for the show being the focus of the film. We again used Empire, the shop mentioned in a previous blog post. We also had the mannequin for this shoot, as it was the core piece of the idea. We had the mannequin dressed in the clothes that the female presenter, called Adeline, was going to be wearing for the show, as the idea was that she was going to steal it from the shop to wear on the show.  The manager of the shot was really nice and helpful in allowing us to film in the shop, which made filming there a lot easier as we could talk to him really easily.  As mentioned before, we did not need to spend any money to be able to film in the shop. We had an agreement that if we were allowed to film in the shop, then we would provide some free advertising, as the promo was going to be going on social media, which the shop owner, the manager's brother, agreed to.  The filming went very well, and we were done within an

During this rehearsal, we had the presenters in so that they could get a sense of what the show is going to be like, and to help them visualise what is going to be happening in the show. We had also bought a mannequin for the show, which I was in charge of.  By this rehearsal, everyone was becoming very comfortable in their roles, and we were all working well in our teams, which for the camera operators was having a camera assistant, and then swap roles half way through the show. This rehearsal ran very smoothly, and we managed to make it through the whole show without stopping, although we needed to be a bit more sudden with our timings between the segments, and we need to be a little bit quicker when we reposition the cameras. 

This rehearsal day was very fun, as we had some people to be the live audience, which added a sense of realism to the show. We also tried shooting this with the set marked in a different position, in order to see where it works better, and how easy or difficult it would be for the cameras to get the shots that they need. As my camera has been on wheels for all of the rehearsals, it makes it very easy to move to a new position quickly. This was useful, as there were a few shots that my camera needed to do that were very different to each other in terms of angle and framing, so the wheels on the tripod helped greatly. There were some problems during the rehearsal though, but they weren't technical. It was the fact that the camera operators were having a hard time trying to imagine where the audience would be, and how far the seats would be going back. There was also the problem of the cables connecting the cameras to the gallery screens. As we did not have a full audience lay

For this rehearsal day, we were not just going to be learning how to carry out our jobs as best that we could. As well as that, we were going to be having a go in all of the other roles there were on the set, both on the floor and in the gallery. This was to get us to understand the roles better, and to know what it is like in case something goes wrong, as we need to act professionally and not yell at anyone if they make a mistake.  This was still a great experience, because I'm a camera operator for the show, so it was really good to see in detail how the roles in the gallery worked. I quite liked being a vision mixer, and was actually quite good at it. I was the only person in my group who the tutor threw a curveball at, which was to have a transition between shots instead of a straight cut. Of all the roles that I tried, I think the one that I lest liked was being in charge of the sound, as I could see that for a live show, it would be to complex for me, as you need to be kee

We had filmed the Promotion film that was going to be going out on social media in order to raise awareness of the show, and now we needed to film the second half of it, which would also be the main title sequence for the show. We filmed this at the UCA campus in Rochester, as it had the facilities that we needed, which were a large empty space and a fashion studio. The plan for the shoot was for our presenters to be imagining that they were ion a catwalk surrounded by paparazzi, realise that there was someone else in the room with them, feel embarrassed, then walk out of the room. As we the Directors had not chosen the presenters yet, I stood in the place of them The filming went very smoothly, due to us having a good plan about what we needed to do Here is the rough edit. As one of the films would be put on social media separately from the other, the two films have been put into one in order to make them connect better.