Monday 14 November 2011

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.

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