Friday 23 July 2010
Friday 9 April 2010
Live Show Analyse - WWE Superstars
Live Show Analyse - WWE Superstars
The second ‘Recorded as Live’ TV programme I have decided to analyse is the popular worldwide TV Show, “WWE Superstars”. WWE Superstars is a wrestling entertainment show consisting of a large body of wrestlers who have very varied personalities and many different storylines to work with.
The layout to the arena is seemingly complicated and elaborate, with an audience of around 23,000 people surrounding the wrestling ring. The set is very carefully designed to look good, and in the particular event I saw live, they had added extras to the set e.g. a London Bus featuring the logo of the WWE, as well as a huge Union Jack flag hanging from the rafters and a mini decorated with the Union Jack flags colours.
Pictures of this are below;
In the second picture, you are able to see the titantron, which displays the entire goings on in the arena, as well as promos and backstage segments. The titantron is there so that people are able to see if situated further back in the arena.
There were around eight cameras overall, three of these were situated ring side, to film all of the in-ring action, as well as the commentary, in addition to those, there was one or two cameras on the ramp ready to film the talent coming down from the ring, all of these cameras were so-called “hand-held” cameras, as they were all held on the shoulder of the camera man/women. In addition to these “hand-held” cameras, there were also around three cameras on jibs, two of which were situated in the crowd to film crowd reactions, as well as show signs that the fans had brought, and one other one near ringside, which seemingly was there to show people closer to the ring. There are also many different forms of microphones used for a programme as big as the WWE, including hand-held ones for the in-ring talent, head-sets for the talent on commentary and more than one directional microphone for the audience. For the lighting, I would guess that the lighting rig was large and very complex. The crew for this size programme is likely to be large, consisting of around 80 plus people. The production also demands the use of an OB truck. As this is a high-profiled programme, it requires the use of many different camera angles, including LS, MS, CU, MCU, and VLS.
There are many health and safety risks for this type of programme for the audience aswell as the talent, there could be lighting faults, electricity faults, set failures and pyrotechnic mistakes. The title introduction sequence for this particular show displays the more well-known and used talent, and seemingly sticks to the colour theme of red and blue.
While the on-air talent (the wrestlers) are given a format as to what storyline they are working under, the actual dialogue and moves they do in the ring are often ad-libbed, though there may be slight formatting in the fact they may be told to say or do a certain thing. The likely audience for this show is young children to adults.
The second ‘Recorded as Live’ TV programme I have decided to analyse is the popular worldwide TV Show, “WWE Superstars”. WWE Superstars is a wrestling entertainment show consisting of a large body of wrestlers who have very varied personalities and many different storylines to work with.
The layout to the arena is seemingly complicated and elaborate, with an audience of around 23,000 people surrounding the wrestling ring. The set is very carefully designed to look good, and in the particular event I saw live, they had added extras to the set e.g. a London Bus featuring the logo of the WWE, as well as a huge Union Jack flag hanging from the rafters and a mini decorated with the Union Jack flags colours.
Pictures of this are below;
In the second picture, you are able to see the titantron, which displays the entire goings on in the arena, as well as promos and backstage segments. The titantron is there so that people are able to see if situated further back in the arena.
There were around eight cameras overall, three of these were situated ring side, to film all of the in-ring action, as well as the commentary, in addition to those, there was one or two cameras on the ramp ready to film the talent coming down from the ring, all of these cameras were so-called “hand-held” cameras, as they were all held on the shoulder of the camera man/women. In addition to these “hand-held” cameras, there were also around three cameras on jibs, two of which were situated in the crowd to film crowd reactions, as well as show signs that the fans had brought, and one other one near ringside, which seemingly was there to show people closer to the ring. There are also many different forms of microphones used for a programme as big as the WWE, including hand-held ones for the in-ring talent, head-sets for the talent on commentary and more than one directional microphone for the audience. For the lighting, I would guess that the lighting rig was large and very complex. The crew for this size programme is likely to be large, consisting of around 80 plus people. The production also demands the use of an OB truck. As this is a high-profiled programme, it requires the use of many different camera angles, including LS, MS, CU, MCU, and VLS.
There are many health and safety risks for this type of programme for the audience aswell as the talent, there could be lighting faults, electricity faults, set failures and pyrotechnic mistakes. The title introduction sequence for this particular show displays the more well-known and used talent, and seemingly sticks to the colour theme of red and blue.
While the on-air talent (the wrestlers) are given a format as to what storyline they are working under, the actual dialogue and moves they do in the ring are often ad-libbed, though there may be slight formatting in the fact they may be told to say or do a certain thing. The likely audience for this show is young children to adults.
Tuesday 30 March 2010
Live Show Analyse - QI
QI Analyse
The first ‘Recorded as Live” TV programmes I have decided to analyse is the popular TV Quiz show ‘Quite Interesting’ or QI as it is more commonly known as. QI is an topical show, which is presented in a comical fashion, yet still in an intelligent way. A varied range of intellectual ability is represented in the show, with the shows host Stephen Fry being at the top of the scale, Fry is generally accompanied by different celebrities each week, with the only consistent celebrity contestant being Alan Davies, of Jonathan Creek fame, between them all they make the show a more than ‘Quite Interesting’ show as the title suggests.
The layout to the studio seems fairly simple, with an probable audience of around 150-200 capacity. The desk the pane sit at is in the shape of the letter Q, representing the name of the quiz show, and a buzzer is also assigned to each individual guest, which often include a different amusing noise when pressed, for example, in the Halloween episode, “Gothic” , each buzzer included a ‘scary’ sound effect, though it should be noted for Alan Davies buzzer noise, it was “Arsenal - Nil, Norwich City - 2” and also the buzzer for Jimmy Carr, a guest on this particular show, featured a voice saying “Here’s Jimmy”, these both added some humour to the show and in a sense got the episode started. Behind the two contestants on either side of the host there was also a background which on occasion shoed pictures associated with the questions being asked at the time. The general layout of the set was the same as usual, and was probably non-permanent also, in this one particular Halloween episode, the set was kept the same though gothic props were used and included two comical gargoyles, one of which was picking it’s nose, these were placed to each side of the host which in turn drew attention to them. In addition the props, dark lighting was also used and to begin with were accompanied by night time pictures of trees behind the contestants to create an atmosphere of gothic hues. Any lighting would used would be hooked up to a lighting rig, which was probably quite big but not very complex, as anything you can keep simple in TV Productions, you do.
The layout to the studio seems fairly simple, with an probable audience of around 150-200 capacity. The desk the pane sit at is in the shape of the letter Q, representing the name of the quiz show, and a buzzer is also assigned to each individual guest, which often include a different amusing noise when pressed, for example, in the Halloween episode, “Gothic” , each buzzer included a ‘scary’ sound effect, though it should be noted for Alan Davies buzzer noise, it was “Arsenal - Nil, Norwich City - 2” and also the buzzer for Jimmy Carr, a guest on this particular show, featured a voice saying “Here’s Jimmy”, these both added some humour to the show and in a sense got the episode started. Behind the two contestants on either side of the host there was also a background which on occasion shoed pictures associated with the questions being asked at the time. The general layout of the set was the same as usual, and was probably non-permanent also, in this one particular Halloween episode, the set was kept the same though gothic props were used and included two comical gargoyles, one of which was picking it’s nose, these were placed to each side of the host which in turn drew attention to them. In addition the props, dark lighting was also used and to begin with were accompanied by night time pictures of trees behind the contestants to create an atmosphere of gothic hues. Any lighting would used would be hooked up to a lighting rig, which was probably quite big but not very complex, as anything you can keep simple in TV Productions, you do.
In this style of television show, many cameras will be used thus giving availability for cameras to be able to get different types of shots, for example in the episode of QI that I watched, I estimate that they probably had around 4-6 cameras, most of which were movable, and perhaps one camera, the host camera, being the only one fixed in place. The type of shots seen in QI were two shots of the guests, medium close ups of the host and individual guests and a wide group shot of the host, and the two guests either side of him. All talent on set will have a microphone, and, as was the case on QI, these microphones will on most occasions be clip-on omni-directional microphones. The audience would also have a microphone hanging down from the ceiling, and this would be an directional microphone.
For any TV production, a crew is needed, all crews vary in how big they are as all productions are different, and less crew is needed for some and more is needed for others, for QI, I would approximate that the crew was quite large and included 30 or 40 plus people. Any crew member, and even the audience members need to be aware that there are many health and safety risks in a studio, such as electricity faults, lights not being rigged up properly etc, therefore must be as safe as possible when on set or in the audience.
The general format of QI is rigid, though it did involve some ad-lib (mostly any humour seen in the show seemed to be ad-lib rather than read from a script).
The audience for QI was likely to be young adults, and adults in general as stereotypically quiz shows of any type are appealing to that age, and especially considering many of them contain humour, this would definitely attract the younger adults to watch as they might be more interested in the humour side than the factual side of quiz shows.
Saturday 27 March 2010
My Diary - Week by Week
Week One
- I was absent throughout this whole week.
Week Two
- This week I filmed the VT Inserts for the round I was assigned to with Reece and Matt, we filmed two different inserts of Shaun dressed up as a character from a film and saying a line from that film. I also attempted to help edit said VT Inserts, and did so the best to my ability.
Week Three
- Throughout this week I helped to paint the set.
Week 4
-This week I helped to create and make the cue-cards for the Live Show taping.
Week 5
- For the first two days of this week, I helped in finishing the cue-cards, and then moved onto my blog work fully. I missed the last two days of this weeks due to illness.
- I was absent throughout this whole week.
Week Two
- This week I filmed the VT Inserts for the round I was assigned to with Reece and Matt, we filmed two different inserts of Shaun dressed up as a character from a film and saying a line from that film. I also attempted to help edit said VT Inserts, and did so the best to my ability.
Week Three
- Throughout this week I helped to paint the set.
Week 4
-This week I helped to create and make the cue-cards for the Live Show taping.
Week 5
- For the first two days of this week, I helped in finishing the cue-cards, and then moved onto my blog work fully. I missed the last two days of this weeks due to illness.
Tech Rehearsals
What are Tech Rehearsals?
Technical reharsals are done to practice testing out all of the equipment and technology that is going to be used in a production, there are two types of technical rehearsal, one being Dry Tech Rehearsals, Dry Tech rehearsal are rehearsals done without the performers needing to be there for them, they usually last multiple hours where each designer or department head runs his or hers parts of the production. It is also a chance for the tech crew who will operate the equipment to become familiar with the flow of the performance. Technical rehearsals however are rehearsals which include the performers that will be featured in the show, these rehearsals run through the whole production in its entirety or cue-to-cue (when the sound and lights are run with certain parts of scenes within the production). These type of rehearsals also focus more on the performers costumes and how they look in the light. These forms of rehearsals can become very repetitive.
Technical reharsals are done to practice testing out all of the equipment and technology that is going to be used in a production, there are two types of technical rehearsal, one being Dry Tech Rehearsals, Dry Tech rehearsal are rehearsals done without the performers needing to be there for them, they usually last multiple hours where each designer or department head runs his or hers parts of the production. It is also a chance for the tech crew who will operate the equipment to become familiar with the flow of the performance. Technical rehearsals however are rehearsals which include the performers that will be featured in the show, these rehearsals run through the whole production in its entirety or cue-to-cue (when the sound and lights are run with certain parts of scenes within the production). These type of rehearsals also focus more on the performers costumes and how they look in the light. These forms of rehearsals can become very repetitive.
Efficient rehearsal and recording practice
Recording Practice: What is it and why do we do it?
A recording practice is in basic terms the same as a rehearsal of the show, only in this version, you record it. Doing a recording practice has the same purpose as to why we do rehearsals, only this is also done to test the audio and visuals are recording correctly and in the proper way. After every take, the whole group who are at the practice will watch back the footage and give feedback on the footage and tell any problems they personally think there are and these problems will then be looked and and hopefully be solved. The actual recording for the show needs to be successful, so practices are very important as to how well the actual recording will go.
Efficient Rehearsals
Efficient rehearsals are essential as it gives the production group the feel on who does well in what role and how well the actual equipment is working in general. When it is finally time to record the actual live show, it is easier and more effective to produce the show as best as possible when the roles are sorted out and the best people are in those roles so it could possibly avoid any problems because the rehearsals show that person does good at that role.
A recording practice is in basic terms the same as a rehearsal of the show, only in this version, you record it. Doing a recording practice has the same purpose as to why we do rehearsals, only this is also done to test the audio and visuals are recording correctly and in the proper way. After every take, the whole group who are at the practice will watch back the footage and give feedback on the footage and tell any problems they personally think there are and these problems will then be looked and and hopefully be solved. The actual recording for the show needs to be successful, so practices are very important as to how well the actual recording will go.
Efficient Rehearsals
Efficient rehearsals are essential as it gives the production group the feel on who does well in what role and how well the actual equipment is working in general. When it is finally time to record the actual live show, it is easier and more effective to produce the show as best as possible when the roles are sorted out and the best people are in those roles so it could possibly avoid any problems because the rehearsals show that person does good at that role.
Script
What are scripts?
Scripts are word processed pieces of paper, whicch include on them the actions and diaglogue of a production which are taking place at specific set times. There are many different types of scripts that are used for a TV Show.
Multi-Cam Scipts
Multi-Cam scripts are scripts which beside action and dialogue also includes technical information for the crew, this type of script can also be used for the director to write notes on if he or she decides something needs changing after a couple of practice runs take place. When you are producing a Mult-Camera script, the script will require two colums, the first of which will be used for Vision, and the second for Audio, in both the colums, the person whom is producing the script will need to be heard or seen at particular points in the production. Only certain people in the crew of a production will require a Multi-Camera Scipt, these include: The Director, Floor Manager, DVD Operator, Sound Operators and Assistant Director.
Here is an example of an Multi-Cam Script:
Scripts are word processed pieces of paper, whicch include on them the actions and diaglogue of a production which are taking place at specific set times. There are many different types of scripts that are used for a TV Show.
Multi-Cam Scipts
Multi-Cam scripts are scripts which beside action and dialogue also includes technical information for the crew, this type of script can also be used for the director to write notes on if he or she decides something needs changing after a couple of practice runs take place. When you are producing a Mult-Camera script, the script will require two colums, the first of which will be used for Vision, and the second for Audio, in both the colums, the person whom is producing the script will need to be heard or seen at particular points in the production. Only certain people in the crew of a production will require a Multi-Camera Scipt, these include: The Director, Floor Manager, DVD Operator, Sound Operators and Assistant Director.
Here is an example of an Multi-Cam Script:
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