Equipment List

Equipment List

·      3 Panasonic P2 cameras

·      6 Camera batteries

·      3 tripods - Put cameras on so it makes them more steady 

·      3 dollies - used to put tripods on so it makes it easier to be moved.

·      3 BNC cable - connected between the output on back of tricaster and into the front to see what the cameras can see on the monitors

·      3 XLR 3pin - used for the boom microphones and connect into the audio mixer.

·      3 XLR 5pin - used for the talk back from the the camera operators and floor manager to the director the lead goes into the back of the tricaster.

·      4 Talkback units - 

·      4Talkback cable

·      4 Talkback headsets

·      1 Tricaster

·      1 Tricaster monitor

·      3 Sony TV monitors

·      RCA Male

·      Vision mixer

·      Sound mixer

·      Headset for director

·      Chairs for Interviewer and interviewee

·      2 Boom microphones

·      1 XLR cable

Need to expand on them more though

TriCaster And Ustream

TriCaster Lacie


After importing the selected videos from the hard drive by finding them on the admin user drive, then open up the tricaster and click on edit media also pick which video you want to be streamed then click on render on the bottom and wait for the video to be uploaded.

Ustream


Go onto the HP laptop and just login in onto the only user
Open up firefox internet and type in www.ustream.tv
Press on the GO LIVE button
Click on The Manchester College broadcast live
On tricaster click on, stream live outlet
After about 1 minute click on the switch to FME button
If you want to go live - press on "start record"
A new window will appear underneath it
If wanting to start recording it live click on "start record"
If you are happy - save it - fill it out

Producer Production Diary

Music Students for our assignment we will be filming and interviewing music students of Manchester College and hearing what they think of the experience of being filmed for the u stream channel of Manchester, also we will be getting the input of the cast working on filming the band who are from the Broadcast Television course who will be working with the music students. Our group is part of the Broadcast Television course so we will be able to also interview students from our group which will be good for when it comes to the live interview where we could interview a student or even one of the tutors about how successful it has been and how he/she believes the group has performed.

For my role i will be the producer which will entitle me helping out with all the equipment, helping with the director and vision mixer also with motivating staff and cast and also helping being the runner. In order to perform in this role i will need to stay alert and keep in touch with both crew and staff, so if they need me for anything i can hopefully supply there needs. Another one of my roles was to get a group together that will be the rest of our cast such as the camera crew, sound engineers other roles that needed to be taken up by people, the way i chose my staff was if i have seen you perform well before you are most likely to be on the team. Mikael, Andy Greenland and Nabeel where all our camera operators this is because i see them as excellent camera operators and work really well as a team offering shots that most other camera operators wouldn't offer to help out the director. Mikael was on the second camera which was on a track which meant that we needed someone to help move the cables along with Mikael, i chose Nyasha to fill in in this role simply because both of these have worked together before on the track and i believed that the succeeded when performing as a duo.

On the sound operating system i had to pick Andy Tabner a lad who from the beginning has shocked me with how much he knows about the audio system with setting up and helping with any audio difficulties who also know exactly what he is doing this is why he was my key man when looking for someone to perform for our television broadcast. Erin was our presenter a young woman who is eccentric on becoming a television presenter and loves performing in front of camera her confidence on camera is also a huge help because just incase anything happens to go wrong she would be able to improvise on the spot a key skill in presenting which is why it was an excellent choice to make her our interviewer and presenter.

When it came to the scripts our director decided to create the script because he is the most trusted and knows what he wants and what to be said, this is the reason why it was important for him to write the script  to be used on the teleprompter although as the producer i looked over the script to make sure that it was discussing the key things that our interview is about also i decided to keep the questions short and quick and not to have huge paragraphs because it is very difficult to read out a paragraph when filming live and under pressure so to keep it quick and easy would be the best option.

The main thing i believe i succeed in with being the producer was keeping everyone entertained, it was a long shoot that ended up taking longer than originally planned so for me too help keep everyone calm, organized and entertained was the right thing to do even if it was to go and get the presenter water and tissues then made sure that she could stay on the stage whilst everyone was running other things. My 100% percent attendance also would have helped me and my group because with out me the group would have missed out on important information that may have helped up in the end shooting also i believe i kept the group in line and up to date with any changes that had happened during the group also with having the mobile numbers and emails it was easy to get in touch with them just to keep them updated.

Program Proposal Mine

• Program outline:  We will be Music Students for our assignment we will be filming and interviewing music students of Manchester College and hearing what they think of the experience of being filmed for the u stream channel of Manchester, also we will be getting the input of the cast working on filming the band who are from the Broadcast Television course who will be working with the music students. Our group is part of the Broadcast Television course so we will be able to also interview students from our group which will be good for when it comes to the live interview where we could interview a student or even one of the tutors about how successful it has been and how he/she believes the group has performed.
• Program duration: 5 minutes - 30 seconds opening and presenter, first half (2 minutes) based on the music students showing video tapes of them performing and interviewing, 1 minute of media students filming the band, 1 minute live broadcasted interview with broadcast student then 30 seconds out with presenter (Presenter is also the interviewer)
• Program broadcaster/ time it will be aired: News package to be used as part of a News Broadcast
• Program broadcast video format: flash
• Target audience: Core target audience; 15 -25 year olds. M and F. Aimed at the college students who are interested in music and new and up and coming bands.
• Content:
• VT subject - Bands playing and students filming
• Guest questions - 
• What are you doing here in Manchester College?
  What was you expecting when you walked into the college today?
  Did the students make you feel welcome?
  Have you ever performed with students from other courses that come together?
  Do you think its good to do that?
  Are you looking forward to your performance in January?
  
  
• Production style
• Title sequence - Follow codes and conventions already laid out by industry.
• End credits - Either scrolling or maybe not any credits
• Set design: 2 chairs, white background or possible green screen 

Questions Asked To The Music Students

This interview is to find out about how the music students felt about there experience being filmed by first year broadcast television students some of the students and how they think it went.

Some of the questions we will be asking to the music students will be:

What are you doing here in Manchester College?
What was you expecting to film when you came into the college today?
Did the students make you feel welcome?
Have you ever performed with students from other courses that come together?
Do you think its good to do that?
Are you looking forward to your performance in January?

These questions will be asked to some more music students that come in for there performance this this means that we will be able to have VT's of all the students playing the instruments which we will use as cut  aways.

Questions asked to the broadcast music students:

What are you doing here in Manchester College?

What will you be filming when you come into the college today?

Have you ever filmed with students from other courses that come together?

Do you think its good to do that?

Are you looking forward to your filming in January?


Questions for the music students at the live showing?


Questions for the broadcast students at the live showing?

Our New Idea

After the idea of Emily Rawlins being too hard to do because of the lack of contacts and not being able to find Emily we have to change our idea our second idea was going to based on a mockumentary of The Manchester College's head teacher Peter Taverner but the idea was short lived as Dave recommended us not because it can be seen as a touchy subject and can taken the wrong way by some viewers. After getting back in our group we had to decide on a new subject and as a group decided to do the subject based on the music students who we was filming the day after this was a perfect opportunity to both film and interview the students that came in, in the morning. Elliot Beese was the first student who we watched and interviewed asking questions about his course and what he expected when getting filmed from first year broadcast television students. 
This new topic wasn't one that i chose although i do like the idea and is much easier to film as these music students as they are coming into our college to be filmed also music is a subject that everyone likes and with them being new bands coming up through college it will do them good to get some good experience.