Monday 26 February 2018

Website Review

The colour palette of The Hunted's website is grey, white and red.
Grey was chosen because of the background image that is to change as it is a placeholder for what will be the interrogation room.
Also all of the text is white rather than black as it shows up better on the dark grey background, however this may change.
The accent is red because it's nice on the eye and works with the shades of white and grey. However the red symbolises the blood spilled by the characters.
There are three pages for the website.
The about page is actually below the home page and features pictures of the cast and crew. However we are missing pictures for two of the group members as one didn't have a photo in a compatible format and the other didn't have one taken.
There is also a gallery that contains pictures of the crew as well as the initial set and thew floor plan for said set and it will later contain more behind the scene photos and stills.
The videos page will have the trailer as well as a blooper reel but is currently blank.

Monday 19 February 2018

Review of Studio Workshop Nov 2017

Recently we did a workshop in the TV studio where we made a mock production of BBC Children in need and used segments from the programme as well as real adverts.
We were met with technical problems with the players which resulted in us having to have another session the following week due to these issues.
I was on the sound desk and was incharge of the volume levels and what sound played with the video.
Initially I had no clue where to start but I quickly picked up on what I was meant to do with the help of one of the technicians.
I managed to stay on top of everything and was able to keep the sound level and play in time with the video.
There were also issues with the autocue as it would either be going too fast or too slow for the presenters to read and they’d be caught off guard sometimes when the cameras would come back on. This lead to one of the presenters swearing out of surprise during the live recording which would not have been allowed to happen in a real live recording.
There were also a lot of people who had nothing to do due to the large group size. Because people didn’t have a job role that required them to be on hand all the time, they’d either be standing or wandering aimlessly or they’d misbehave and mess about which would be distracting to those who wanted to continue with the production.


The final product was alright for a first attempt at a live studio recording, considering we had next to no experience and had no real idea of what to do initially.
The audio was up to standard however the cutting between segments could have been a lot better and the presenters could have been more prepared to come back on after a segment but that’s more down to the floor manager.
The script writing also could have been better as it didn’t always feel natural, the lack of naturalism is also reflected in the presenter’s body language and the way the say what’s on the autocue, it’s obvious that they’re reading rather than saying it from the top of their head.

This is partly due to the lack of efficient rehearsals due to the lack of time but also due to the lack of experience as they were new to presenting.