We have to watch and analyse two live TV shows. I picked Jeremy Kyle and have I got news for you. I picked these two because I don’t usually watch these particular shows so I thought I’d be able to look at them from a non-bias point of view.
Have I got news for you.
Have I got news for you begins with a VT insert of what seems like a cartoon showing all the hot spots in London and life in general. It shows Big Ben and people doing their washing at a launderette, people shopping. And it also shows cartoons of things that have happened in the news. And the main people in the news, all with a humorous view.
We then see an establishing shot of the studio, both teams and the host are in view, and also the front of the middle, left and right sections of the audience are also in view.
The set at this moment has have I got news for you written on it, as the camera comes in closer to the presenter the boards turn and shows a collage of newspaper clippings.
The camera then cuts to a MCU of the presenter who is already sitting in his place on the set – in between the first team and the second team.
He begins with introducing himself and then reading out some news stories with a funny twist. After reading out each one a VT insert appears of either a video or a picture.
The camera then cuts to the first team. As the host introduces them and gives the audience some small facts about who they are and what they are famous for, this then repeats in exactly the same way with the second team.
Already the amount of cameras used is clear. I believe it is 8. One for the establishing shots. One for the host. And three cameras for each team, one for two-shots, one for individual shots and one for over the shoulder shots.
The teams have microphone clipped on to their eye line, this means that they have their microphone clipped onto the side they will look to the most, for example the team on the left hand side will look to their right at the host so their mic will be clipped on the Mic. The host’s lines are all scripted. You can tell this because of how and what the host says. The things said aren’t really natural. Although the contestants responses are ad-lib.
There are a lot of VT inserts that would appear in the studio and on the TV at home.Each team has to buzz in to answer a question. The host is there to present the show and guide the audience and contestants through the rounds, also a well known host will incise viewers.
This show is basically what we are trying to do.
The Jeremy Kyle Show
The Jeremy Kyle show is a TV filmed as live based on peoples real life experiences, real people go on the show to talk about their real problems in hope to seek help or find an answer to their problems.
This TV show doesn’t have teams like programs such as have I got news for you as it isn’t a quiz show. In a way it’s a bit like a reality TV show. The host (Jeremy Kyle) walks around the set freely, it’s his programme and the programmes about him and how he helps vulnerable people. Small parts such as the introductions and endings to the show are scripted, the rest is ad-libs.
There are six cameras used in this programme.
Four of them are used on to get shots of the guests sides, two on each side (left and right) one is set above and behind the audience to get establishing shots and the last one is the presenters camera which is used mainly for when the host has to talk from a script. Most of the shots used are medium close ups of the guests, and occasionally two or three shots, they are used to capture emotion and reactions – reaction shots. The guests and host wear Omni directional microphones because there is no telling what’s going to happen and where anybody will look in terms of eye line. The director on this show needs to be quick on his feet as anything could happen, sometimes the show can be heated and a lot of action can happen and at other times the show can be calm and emotional. The director needs to know what’s happening at all times and also be able to predict what may happen so he knows where to cut to.
Both shows I have anaylised are recorded 'as-live' which means there is only one take, but there is the chance to cut peices out and edit certain parts just incase anything is done wrong, although on set there will be no time to correct these mistakes. Both show's are completly differnt genre wise although follow the same type of camera layouts by having cameras on the host, establishing shot cameras and the host having their own camera. Jeremy kyle is completly differn't to what we are trying to create but to anaylise this type of programme helps also as we can make sure we don't incorportate the action e.t.c in our Have i got news for you style programme.
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
Production Diary
Week One:
We recieved the assignment for the multi-cam production and read through what we had to do to complete this assignment. Then we were put into seperate groups of four to pick the rounds for our quiz show. We decided to do a celebrity round.
Our initial idea for our round was to have a 'question of sport' type layout, with 8 boxes, and something behind each box. We decided to have pictures of us dressed up as celebrities for four of the boxes, and questions for the other four.
We also decided what roles we would each have to perform throughout the pre-production stage.
I was incharge of content, which in theory is like the producer. I was incharge of what got put into the celebrity round and I also had to confirm with the other content managers for the other rounds what we were doing to make sure it didn't clash with anyone of them. I also had to check that the answers to the chosen questions were correct. We were also talked about how to use the multi-cam equipment, and we all got a turn on the camera's to help us work our heads around the way in which they worked in and also the differn't types of shots we could use.
Week 2:
The second week was pretty much confirming the rounds and how they were going to work. In the end we had to change our original idea for the celeb round from boxes to standard q&a questions as we believed that our idea would put to much pressure on the dvd operator on the live show. So instead of choosing boxes to reveal the question, the question would be read out. 2 pictures and 2 questions per team.
We then got started on creating the physical content, the stuff that was going to be seen. Tim helped us by taking pictures of me as Lady Gaga, Ana as Amy Winehouse, Josh as Jack Sparrow and we also went and brought a Mr Potato Head stripped the parts and took pictures of that.
We had too bring in ten questions on what we had learnt the week before to begin rehearsals. Everyone had a differn't role on the practical, some were sitting in for audience members, some where on the panel and there were also camera people, audio, vision mixing e.t.c This week I did audio assistant, which involved telling the FM through talk back about how things were going in the sound room and also calling for soundchecks.
We also came up for a name for the show, and called it Media Circus.
We also painted 7 boards magnolia. We used 7 boards because we wanted to create a 'circus tent'.
Week 3:
We managed to This week was mainly everyone chipping in and helping painting because we had seven boards to do we needed all the help we could get otherwise our set wouldn't be finished in time. Some people were off creating the VT inserts for their round and others just painted, watched it dry and painted it some more. I spent my time checking on Josh who was doing the VT inserts to check he was Ok and didn't need any help, and also by painting the set.
We kept rehearsing the practical side of the project all rotating roles so we got the hang of each differn't role, so in theory on the day of the live show we could be chucked anywhere and know what to do and how to handle any problems.
Week 4:
We had pretty much finished the set, there was just 2 boards left to paint and a few to touch up.
The script was still in the process of being written so we couldn't do any proper rehearsals. So we carried on as we had done before.
Week 5:
This was the last week, we managed to finish the set on the tuesday and the script was finally finished and in the right layout. We managed to grab a few rehearsals before the big show.
We also got to have a look at our Buzzers that had been made by Chris.
Then we recorded our show, amazingly after alot of faffing around editing the script and cue cards that morning we actually got stuck in and made a good show. For the first half of the live show I was the assistant director, which meant I had to tell the director what audio or VT inserts were coming up and how long before they did so.
In the second half I was the Audio Assistant, which in the second half of the show meant not doing much, but just keeping an eye on the levels of the contestants, buzzers and audience.
We recieved the assignment for the multi-cam production and read through what we had to do to complete this assignment. Then we were put into seperate groups of four to pick the rounds for our quiz show. We decided to do a celebrity round.
Our initial idea for our round was to have a 'question of sport' type layout, with 8 boxes, and something behind each box. We decided to have pictures of us dressed up as celebrities for four of the boxes, and questions for the other four.
We also decided what roles we would each have to perform throughout the pre-production stage.
I was incharge of content, which in theory is like the producer. I was incharge of what got put into the celebrity round and I also had to confirm with the other content managers for the other rounds what we were doing to make sure it didn't clash with anyone of them. I also had to check that the answers to the chosen questions were correct. We were also talked about how to use the multi-cam equipment, and we all got a turn on the camera's to help us work our heads around the way in which they worked in and also the differn't types of shots we could use.
Week 2:
The second week was pretty much confirming the rounds and how they were going to work. In the end we had to change our original idea for the celeb round from boxes to standard q&a questions as we believed that our idea would put to much pressure on the dvd operator on the live show. So instead of choosing boxes to reveal the question, the question would be read out. 2 pictures and 2 questions per team.
We then got started on creating the physical content, the stuff that was going to be seen. Tim helped us by taking pictures of me as Lady Gaga, Ana as Amy Winehouse, Josh as Jack Sparrow and we also went and brought a Mr Potato Head stripped the parts and took pictures of that.
We had too bring in ten questions on what we had learnt the week before to begin rehearsals. Everyone had a differn't role on the practical, some were sitting in for audience members, some where on the panel and there were also camera people, audio, vision mixing e.t.c This week I did audio assistant, which involved telling the FM through talk back about how things were going in the sound room and also calling for soundchecks.
We also came up for a name for the show, and called it Media Circus.
We also painted 7 boards magnolia. We used 7 boards because we wanted to create a 'circus tent'.
Week 3:
We managed to This week was mainly everyone chipping in and helping painting because we had seven boards to do we needed all the help we could get otherwise our set wouldn't be finished in time. Some people were off creating the VT inserts for their round and others just painted, watched it dry and painted it some more. I spent my time checking on Josh who was doing the VT inserts to check he was Ok and didn't need any help, and also by painting the set.
We kept rehearsing the practical side of the project all rotating roles so we got the hang of each differn't role, so in theory on the day of the live show we could be chucked anywhere and know what to do and how to handle any problems.
Week 4:
We had pretty much finished the set, there was just 2 boards left to paint and a few to touch up.
The script was still in the process of being written so we couldn't do any proper rehearsals. So we carried on as we had done before.
Week 5:
This was the last week, we managed to finish the set on the tuesday and the script was finally finished and in the right layout. We managed to grab a few rehearsals before the big show.
We also got to have a look at our Buzzers that had been made by Chris.
Then we recorded our show, amazingly after alot of faffing around editing the script and cue cards that morning we actually got stuck in and made a good show. For the first half of the live show I was the assistant director, which meant I had to tell the director what audio or VT inserts were coming up and how long before they did so.
In the second half I was the Audio Assistant, which in the second half of the show meant not doing much, but just keeping an eye on the levels of the contestants, buzzers and audience.
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