First television programme!

Hello there!

In a certain module named 'TV Studio', we have been asked to create a short television programe that we are to present to an audience of seven year olds and under. The brief is 'How to make a paper aeroplane'.

This sounds easier than it actually was.

So, in my group we decided upon our roles and because our group is larger than others, we have two presenters, me being one of them. Im rather stoked as presenting is something I would like to go into in the future. I thought that right from the beginning I would be great however, when it came to putting me infront of three cameras on the actual day, I did forget some lines and I was pretty nervous!

So between the groups we wrote our script. As the programme is only around three minutes long, we didn't have to script much of the show. We decided to opt for a halloween theme with it being October and we were all pleased that during when we were getting our set ready, our lectures Alex and Trevor seemed pleased as they said they hadn't ever had a Halloween theme before! Brilliant! 


So after many rehearsals and getting each camera angle correct, we did our recording. Much of the programme wasn't scripted with it being a very short programme, therefore Michael (the other presenter along side me) and myself were able to add our own humour to the show and make it seem more laid back.
I must say, as it was being cast to young children, I did feel very much out of my comfort zone. I found myself sometimes talking in a slightly patronising voice, almost like how people would talk to toddlers! I realised i was doing this, so to help I just imagined the programme being aimed at young adults instead. After about four rehearsals, I did begin to feel a lot more at ease with talking to the cameras and started to really get into the whole 'filming live on set' atmosphere. Before I knew it, it was time to go home!

Below is a photograph I took of our set on the day of filming. You can really see the 'Halloween' theme we had going on!

I feel in doing this great exercise, it really made the whole group work together well and get to grips with the equipment. We all knew our place and got completely into our roles! Everything ran so smoothly and I'm very much looking forward to filing our actual assignment in a few weeks!

WATCH THIS SPACE!