Wednesday, 29 March 2017
Wednesday, 15 March 2017
Unit 37 Presentation Techniques (Task 1)
Part A:
British Pathe
As part of the presentation techniques I have been asked to take a look at the development of presentation styles from Pathe News to Newsround. Pathe News was originally formed during 1896 in Paris France created by Charles Pathe and his brothers whom were pioneers of the moving image. Pathe News invited the first cinema newsreel in 1908, this would pave the way for the way that we view the news today. Now instead of just reading the news people could go to the cinema and pay to watch a newsreel, this would be the first time people could watch the news as a series of moving images and though now days going to the cinema to pay for news would seem silly back in 1908 it was a revolutionary concept. By 1910 Pathe News had established an office in London and from then on all the way until the 1970's they would continue to produce cinema newsreels. They were now known as British Pathe.
When Pathe news first started it was very basic, there was no narration over the news footage. In fact the cinema newsreels featured no sound all the way up until 1928. They were issued biweekly and only ran for about four minutes each time. In the early days Pathe News was not to frequent as they were difficult to produce, back in those days cinema was not digital and everything had to be shot on film with the film reel being cut together to form coherent news story's. Pathe News mostly consisted of static camera shots however sometimes the coverage would include pans and even multiple angles. Which can be best demonstrated during coverage of Franz Reichelt's infamous fatal parachute jump.
What surprised me the most about this clip was how graphic the content was, in the clip we literally see a man die due to a failed parachute jump and back when this happened it was seen as perfectly acceptable to air. One of the biggest changes in news coverage from Pathe News to modern day news is what kind of content can be aired, regulations such as the BBFC did not yet exist and as such there was nobody controlling the content of news and cinema in general meaning that much more edgy and sometimes offensive clips could be shown. For example in todays day and age there would be know way that you would turn on the news and see a man hitting the floor after jumping off the Eiffel tower. As well as this other tragic events such as the suffragette Emily Dawson's death being caught on Pathe News during coverage of the 1913 Epsom Derby. Today such graphic content would not be shown on news broadcasts as today's audience's are more likely to be offended by graphic content such as this.
By the 1930's British Pathe would go on to produce newsreels covering news, entertainment, sport, culture and women’s issues through programmes including the Pathétone Weekly, the Pathé Pictorial, the Gazette and Eve’s Film Review. As well as this British Pathe also aired a number of TV programmes but ultimately the rise of the television meant the end for cinema newsreels and due to not being able to compete with TV British Pathe stopped producing newsreels in 1970. In a way Pathe News inspired todays modern range of news programmes such as Newsround, they did this by being the first people to visualise news and turn it into moving picture images making it a more enjoyable and informative viewing experience. Todays news programmes don't just cover world news they cover, sport, entertainment and culture too and this was a trend started by British Pathe during the 1930's so really they are the pioneers of the multi topical news shows we have today
So to summaries British Pathes style was very old fashioned and how you'd expect it to be being the first moving image newsreels. They had a very formal approach and zero narration until at least 1928. After the addition of narration and sound the presentation style was formal, serious and informative with the aim of providing the viewer with as much relevant information as possible as appose to actually entertaining them. Below is one of what is beleived to be the very first cinema newsreel films still remaining, it was not the first but many of the oldest cinema newsreels have been lost.
Newsround
Newsround is children's news programme from the BBC which started back in 1972. Up until 1989 it was known as John Cravens Newsround and was originally planned to be a 12 part mini series commissioned by the BBC's children's department, it was part of the BBC news family. Despite being pitched as a mini series Newsround still runs today and has drastically developed over the years and it is now known as CBBC Newsround airing on the BBC's children's channel known as CBBC, the channel was founded back in 2002 and since then the Newsround programme has aired on there.
After John Cravens departure Newsround, much like it is today, was presented by a number of presenters whom would rotate on a daily basis. The presentation style was informative yet light so that children from ages 6-12 could watch it, it was and still is a great way of getting kids interested in the world that we live in as children as young as that might not be able to get to grips with more formal and adult news programmes such as BBC news. Despite being originally pitched at the children aged 6-12 Newsround covered serious topics in order to inform and educate the youth, for example, Newsround was the first British television programme to break the news of the loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger on 28 January 1986. This edition was presented by Roger Finn, who had only recently joined the programme. The programme was also first in Britain to report an assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II in Vatican City in 1981 and provided the first reports from the Windsor Castle fire of November 1992. The BBC clearly had faith in Newsround as a format allowing them to break such big story's.
As you can see from the clip above Newsround has had to change its style to stay modern in todays times, In the original Newsround it was very formal with one man and sometimes a co presenter covering other stories sat facing the camera as the occasional graphic was displayed in the background, the pace was quite slow and the show did not really feature many graphics or indents with the set being simplistic featuring a person facing the camera in front of a green screen in which pictures can be super imposed on to. These days CBBC's Newround is a faster show, notice that length of the 1982 show is almost 10 minutes where as the length of the modern day show is only 5 minutes. This is because kids these days are a lot less likely to pay attention to an informative programme for a longer period of time. As well as this the Newsround of today features a lot more graphics and indents between segments and detailed reports from correspondents on location. As far as the presenting goes it is a lot less formal and more cheery in order to appeal to the children of today, the show is colourful and eye catching and the young viewers will associate the colours green and purple with the show. As a former child I was once the target audience of Newsround and can say that the show successfully made me interested in the world around me and keeping up to date with the news.
Part B:
As part of the presentation techniques assignment I will need to study current TV presenters in order to learn about their styles and in turn develop my own style.
The second presenter I have chosen to look at is Bradley Walsh. Walsh is a game show presenter who host shows such as The Chase on ITV, he also appears as guests on shows such as play to the whilst. I like his style as he can go from being very serious to very funny, he has a great sense of humour and uses his dry wit to make moments funny. He is less formal than Gary Lineker and has a thicker accent which I guess fits his style more and could make him more relatable. He presents himself as an all round good guy who isn't afraid to have a laugh sometime making jokes at his own expense.
His verbal techniques include using his accent and tone of voice to relate to the audience, his accent makes him seem like a real person as it is quite strong but also very friendly. Usually TV presenters have neutral accents in order to either appear to everyone make sure that they can be understood.
In my presentation I would like to adopts Bradley Walsh's style by being humours, hopefully this will engage the audience and keep them entertained.
British Pathe
As part of the presentation techniques I have been asked to take a look at the development of presentation styles from Pathe News to Newsround. Pathe News was originally formed during 1896 in Paris France created by Charles Pathe and his brothers whom were pioneers of the moving image. Pathe News invited the first cinema newsreel in 1908, this would pave the way for the way that we view the news today. Now instead of just reading the news people could go to the cinema and pay to watch a newsreel, this would be the first time people could watch the news as a series of moving images and though now days going to the cinema to pay for news would seem silly back in 1908 it was a revolutionary concept. By 1910 Pathe News had established an office in London and from then on all the way until the 1970's they would continue to produce cinema newsreels. They were now known as British Pathe.
When Pathe news first started it was very basic, there was no narration over the news footage. In fact the cinema newsreels featured no sound all the way up until 1928. They were issued biweekly and only ran for about four minutes each time. In the early days Pathe News was not to frequent as they were difficult to produce, back in those days cinema was not digital and everything had to be shot on film with the film reel being cut together to form coherent news story's. Pathe News mostly consisted of static camera shots however sometimes the coverage would include pans and even multiple angles. Which can be best demonstrated during coverage of Franz Reichelt's infamous fatal parachute jump.
What surprised me the most about this clip was how graphic the content was, in the clip we literally see a man die due to a failed parachute jump and back when this happened it was seen as perfectly acceptable to air. One of the biggest changes in news coverage from Pathe News to modern day news is what kind of content can be aired, regulations such as the BBFC did not yet exist and as such there was nobody controlling the content of news and cinema in general meaning that much more edgy and sometimes offensive clips could be shown. For example in todays day and age there would be know way that you would turn on the news and see a man hitting the floor after jumping off the Eiffel tower. As well as this other tragic events such as the suffragette Emily Dawson's death being caught on Pathe News during coverage of the 1913 Epsom Derby. Today such graphic content would not be shown on news broadcasts as today's audience's are more likely to be offended by graphic content such as this.
By the 1930's British Pathe would go on to produce newsreels covering news, entertainment, sport, culture and women’s issues through programmes including the Pathétone Weekly, the Pathé Pictorial, the Gazette and Eve’s Film Review. As well as this British Pathe also aired a number of TV programmes but ultimately the rise of the television meant the end for cinema newsreels and due to not being able to compete with TV British Pathe stopped producing newsreels in 1970. In a way Pathe News inspired todays modern range of news programmes such as Newsround, they did this by being the first people to visualise news and turn it into moving picture images making it a more enjoyable and informative viewing experience. Todays news programmes don't just cover world news they cover, sport, entertainment and culture too and this was a trend started by British Pathe during the 1930's so really they are the pioneers of the multi topical news shows we have today
So to summaries British Pathes style was very old fashioned and how you'd expect it to be being the first moving image newsreels. They had a very formal approach and zero narration until at least 1928. After the addition of narration and sound the presentation style was formal, serious and informative with the aim of providing the viewer with as much relevant information as possible as appose to actually entertaining them. Below is one of what is beleived to be the very first cinema newsreel films still remaining, it was not the first but many of the oldest cinema newsreels have been lost.
Newsround
Newsround is children's news programme from the BBC which started back in 1972. Up until 1989 it was known as John Cravens Newsround and was originally planned to be a 12 part mini series commissioned by the BBC's children's department, it was part of the BBC news family. Despite being pitched as a mini series Newsround still runs today and has drastically developed over the years and it is now known as CBBC Newsround airing on the BBC's children's channel known as CBBC, the channel was founded back in 2002 and since then the Newsround programme has aired on there.
After John Cravens departure Newsround, much like it is today, was presented by a number of presenters whom would rotate on a daily basis. The presentation style was informative yet light so that children from ages 6-12 could watch it, it was and still is a great way of getting kids interested in the world that we live in as children as young as that might not be able to get to grips with more formal and adult news programmes such as BBC news. Despite being originally pitched at the children aged 6-12 Newsround covered serious topics in order to inform and educate the youth, for example, Newsround was the first British television programme to break the news of the loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger on 28 January 1986. This edition was presented by Roger Finn, who had only recently joined the programme. The programme was also first in Britain to report an assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II in Vatican City in 1981 and provided the first reports from the Windsor Castle fire of November 1992. The BBC clearly had faith in Newsround as a format allowing them to break such big story's.
As you can see from the clip above Newsround has had to change its style to stay modern in todays times, In the original Newsround it was very formal with one man and sometimes a co presenter covering other stories sat facing the camera as the occasional graphic was displayed in the background, the pace was quite slow and the show did not really feature many graphics or indents with the set being simplistic featuring a person facing the camera in front of a green screen in which pictures can be super imposed on to. These days CBBC's Newround is a faster show, notice that length of the 1982 show is almost 10 minutes where as the length of the modern day show is only 5 minutes. This is because kids these days are a lot less likely to pay attention to an informative programme for a longer period of time. As well as this the Newsround of today features a lot more graphics and indents between segments and detailed reports from correspondents on location. As far as the presenting goes it is a lot less formal and more cheery in order to appeal to the children of today, the show is colourful and eye catching and the young viewers will associate the colours green and purple with the show. As a former child I was once the target audience of Newsround and can say that the show successfully made me interested in the world around me and keeping up to date with the news.
Part B:
As part of the presentation techniques assignment I will need to study current TV presenters in order to learn about their styles and in turn develop my own style.
The first presenter I am using as inspiration is the BBC's Gary Lineker. I have been a big fan of lifestyle programme television presenter Gary Lineker for many years, he is best known for being the host of BBC's match of the day whilst also working as a football pundit for both the BBC and BT Sports. His presentation style is formal and informative, as well as this he is opinionated and is never shy to voice his opinion on subjects as well as debating and discussing matters with guests on his show. I always see Gary Lineker as someone who is very knowledgeable and appears as an expert in his field, as a presenter I would also like to be viewed in this way. I think it is very important that the presenter comes across as someone who knows what they are talking about because then the audience will trust their opinions and view them as someone that deserves their attention. Lineker uses verbal techniques such as tone of voice, pace of delivery and phrase structure to come across as genuine guy whom is intelligent and has a deep understanding of his subject as well as this he is well spoken and uses illustrative language to present himself in a high manor.
Visual techniques he uses include body language and physical gestures. Lineker gesticulates using his hands whilst talking which implies that he is passionate and enthusiastic about the subject he is talking about. As well as this he always looks smart and respectable dressing nicely for his show. This is something that I will be looking to replicated with in my presentation as carrying yourself in this manner is important to appearing as respectable presenter.
Gary Linekers background is in football, as an Ex professional footballer he played for England and world class teams such as Barcelona and Leicester City. His background allows him to have lots of knowledge about what he is reporting on meaning that he comes across as an expert. Obviously I do not have a large background in the subject I am reporting on and therefor will need to conduct lots of research.
His verbal techniques include using his accent and tone of voice to relate to the audience, his accent makes him seem like a real person as it is quite strong but also very friendly. Usually TV presenters have neutral accents in order to either appear to everyone make sure that they can be understood.
In my presentation I would like to adopts Bradley Walsh's style by being humours, hopefully this will engage the audience and keep them entertained.
Tuesday, 14 March 2017
Unit 37 Presentation Techniques (Task 4)
Evaluation
The Ufilms Oscars Rundown is finally over and in my opinion the whole thing has been a success, though at times it has been difficult we have managed to produce two weeks worth of content for our YouTube channel. Overall the experience has been rewarding as I know we have created some good quality content for people to enjoy.
Firstly I think that my first show 'The Ufilms Music Rundown' was the better out of my two as I feel it was more entertaining than my second one, this might be because there was two presenters making the show feel more chatty and less formal. I liked the set up of the first show better two with the two presenters sat on sofas angled toward each other on the set like a real talk show. I had a three camera set up and used tow lights. I had a master shot of both me and my co-worker with the other two angles being our close up cameras, one on me and one on my co presenter. This meant we could engage with the audience by talking directly into the camera and at them. If there was one thing I would improve about my set up it would be to have more props on the set. It would have been cool if I could have had a disco ball hanging above the set however due to the studio we filmed in this wasn't possible, as well as this I would have had vinyl record on the table just because it gives the set a bit more dressing and as soon as the audience see these things they will realise we will be talking about something music related. I liked the script I had wrote and thought it was a good mix of informative information and humour. The only disadvantage to having a script was that at times the performances may have looked scripted where as I would rather have it look natural however I used cutaways to hide times the presenters were looking at there scripts which were placed out of frame on the floor. However saying this I had to write a script as I was aware that my co presenter Ben may not have prepared as much as I'd asked him to and low and behold he hadn't. This meant we had to use the script as Ben hadn't researched the topic and therefor couldn't naturally hold a conversation about it. If I was to evaluate Ben's performance in the first video I would say that his presentation style was good but he lacked the ability to improve and came under prepared as well as at times delivering lines unnaturally on camera. I was also disappointed that Ben didn't help out as much as he could have during the pre-production stages of our show. Saying this I am happy with the end product of the first show, I think it was an entertaining video and that myself and Ben were overall good presenters. Evaluating myself now sometimes I messed up lines and forgot what to say however I had never been on camera before so I had to quickly learn how to adapt my body language to come across as confident presenter but I am happy with my performances and I think that I carried the first show working hard in front of and behind the camera to make sure it looked how I wanted it too.
Moving on to the second show now and this was the show I presented on my own called the 'Music Reaction Show' I thought this show was good but not as funny as the first show. When your presenting on your own you need to rely on your own charisma to keep the audience engaged as you do not have a co presenter to talk to and make jokes with. I think I manged this reasonably well but in hindsight would have rather worked with another presenter. The show was a simpler set up than the first one as I only used two cameras, thinking three would be a bit over kill for just one person, the cuts may have become tedious and made the pace of the piece to quick. For this show I didn't prepare a formal script I just created a research sheet with information that I wanted to include about each subject on, as well as this I wrote an intro and outro as well as notes on what I wanted to say. I highlighted the important facts and figures to ensure that I remembered to read them out. My lighting for both shows was pretty much the same, sometimes it was difficult I was not casting a noticeable shadow due to the lights but the crew managed.
Speaking of the crew I thought the Ufilms team was fantastic, everyone pulled their weight and helped star in and film various videos. People under took a number of roles and did everything they were asked never complaining about a role. Lots of people had never presented before too (like myslef) and they did well to show confidence on camera. Everyone managed to get their videos out on time even if some where a couple of hours late people went to great lengths in order to get their videos up as to not let the team down. Peoples dedication was admirable. We worked long and hard days in order to film and edit as much content as possible and it payed off as we produced lots of good quality videos. I'd say that out YouTube channel was good and I really like the header and logo that were created for it by Ben and Matty. Our branding was good too as we managed to create an intro graphic for the start of the videos and we all also ended our videos with the same way using the Ufilms Oscars logo, If we could do this again I would say that the biggest thing our videos lacked was graphics. Sometimes there were breaks or pauses in the video that were hard to edit around and the use of a transitional graphic or indent would have provided a shortcut during editing and made our content seem more professional.
I think that people enjoyed the Ufilms Oscars Rundown, we tried to push our content as much as possible on Facebook and Instagram even live streaming some behind the scenes stuff from a shoot. Our reach on Facebook was quite good and the videos tended to get a lot of support and positive feedback, infact we didn't get any negative feedback on social media.
So to conclude the Rundown was a success, we were only limited by our equipment and studio. I think if we were to recreate this in the future we could create an even higher quality product. We achieved our goal and produced a video a day (sometimes more) about the 89th annual academy awards!
The Ufilms Oscars Rundown is finally over and in my opinion the whole thing has been a success, though at times it has been difficult we have managed to produce two weeks worth of content for our YouTube channel. Overall the experience has been rewarding as I know we have created some good quality content for people to enjoy.
Firstly I think that my first show 'The Ufilms Music Rundown' was the better out of my two as I feel it was more entertaining than my second one, this might be because there was two presenters making the show feel more chatty and less formal. I liked the set up of the first show better two with the two presenters sat on sofas angled toward each other on the set like a real talk show. I had a three camera set up and used tow lights. I had a master shot of both me and my co-worker with the other two angles being our close up cameras, one on me and one on my co presenter. This meant we could engage with the audience by talking directly into the camera and at them. If there was one thing I would improve about my set up it would be to have more props on the set. It would have been cool if I could have had a disco ball hanging above the set however due to the studio we filmed in this wasn't possible, as well as this I would have had vinyl record on the table just because it gives the set a bit more dressing and as soon as the audience see these things they will realise we will be talking about something music related. I liked the script I had wrote and thought it was a good mix of informative information and humour. The only disadvantage to having a script was that at times the performances may have looked scripted where as I would rather have it look natural however I used cutaways to hide times the presenters were looking at there scripts which were placed out of frame on the floor. However saying this I had to write a script as I was aware that my co presenter Ben may not have prepared as much as I'd asked him to and low and behold he hadn't. This meant we had to use the script as Ben hadn't researched the topic and therefor couldn't naturally hold a conversation about it. If I was to evaluate Ben's performance in the first video I would say that his presentation style was good but he lacked the ability to improve and came under prepared as well as at times delivering lines unnaturally on camera. I was also disappointed that Ben didn't help out as much as he could have during the pre-production stages of our show. Saying this I am happy with the end product of the first show, I think it was an entertaining video and that myself and Ben were overall good presenters. Evaluating myself now sometimes I messed up lines and forgot what to say however I had never been on camera before so I had to quickly learn how to adapt my body language to come across as confident presenter but I am happy with my performances and I think that I carried the first show working hard in front of and behind the camera to make sure it looked how I wanted it too.
Moving on to the second show now and this was the show I presented on my own called the 'Music Reaction Show' I thought this show was good but not as funny as the first show. When your presenting on your own you need to rely on your own charisma to keep the audience engaged as you do not have a co presenter to talk to and make jokes with. I think I manged this reasonably well but in hindsight would have rather worked with another presenter. The show was a simpler set up than the first one as I only used two cameras, thinking three would be a bit over kill for just one person, the cuts may have become tedious and made the pace of the piece to quick. For this show I didn't prepare a formal script I just created a research sheet with information that I wanted to include about each subject on, as well as this I wrote an intro and outro as well as notes on what I wanted to say. I highlighted the important facts and figures to ensure that I remembered to read them out. My lighting for both shows was pretty much the same, sometimes it was difficult I was not casting a noticeable shadow due to the lights but the crew managed.
Speaking of the crew I thought the Ufilms team was fantastic, everyone pulled their weight and helped star in and film various videos. People under took a number of roles and did everything they were asked never complaining about a role. Lots of people had never presented before too (like myslef) and they did well to show confidence on camera. Everyone managed to get their videos out on time even if some where a couple of hours late people went to great lengths in order to get their videos up as to not let the team down. Peoples dedication was admirable. We worked long and hard days in order to film and edit as much content as possible and it payed off as we produced lots of good quality videos. I'd say that out YouTube channel was good and I really like the header and logo that were created for it by Ben and Matty. Our branding was good too as we managed to create an intro graphic for the start of the videos and we all also ended our videos with the same way using the Ufilms Oscars logo, If we could do this again I would say that the biggest thing our videos lacked was graphics. Sometimes there were breaks or pauses in the video that were hard to edit around and the use of a transitional graphic or indent would have provided a shortcut during editing and made our content seem more professional.
I think that people enjoyed the Ufilms Oscars Rundown, we tried to push our content as much as possible on Facebook and Instagram even live streaming some behind the scenes stuff from a shoot. Our reach on Facebook was quite good and the videos tended to get a lot of support and positive feedback, infact we didn't get any negative feedback on social media.
So to conclude the Rundown was a success, we were only limited by our equipment and studio. I think if we were to recreate this in the future we could create an even higher quality product. We achieved our goal and produced a video a day (sometimes more) about the 89th annual academy awards!
Friday, 10 March 2017
Unit 37 Presentation Techniques (Task 2)
TASK 2 PART 1:
As our production company Ufilms we came up with the idea of creating a series of videos all themed around the Oscars. We decided that for two weeks we would create one video a day about the Oscars, we would make a weeks worth of videos before the Oscars and a weeks worth of videos after the Oscars. We did this so that we could present all the build up to the Oscars during the week before and then present all of our reactions during the week after.
We decided we would output our videos on our YouTube channel called Ufilms, all of the videos we created fall under the branding and structure of Ufilms. These means that all of our videos had to be formatted in a similar way. For example we decided that we would create graphics for all of our videos, this included an animated intro and presenter name plates. These graphics where made by Matty and myself respectively.
We came up with a schedule in order to structure our output of videos, we decided that at least one video would be uploaded to the Ufilms YouTube channel each day and that each presenter had to create two videos. Some presenters presented in a pair and others presenter on their own, each video was indented to be informative and entertaining. I decided that I would present my first video with Ben, the video would be on the topic of music and we would discuss all the nominees who were up for both the 'best original score' award and 'best original song' award. My second video would feature just myself and my reactions to the winners of the awards and also my reviews on the musical performances at the academy awards.
We knew that we had to make our videos appeal to our target audience and with our target audience being a similar age and demographic to ourselves we were confident we could do this. Our videos had to be entertaining and informative so that people had a reason to watch them and as presenters we had to be confident and charismatic in order to convey ourselves as knowledgeable sources of information. Research would be key in order to come across like we knew what we were talking about.
Week 1 (Commencing 20th February)
Week 2 (Commencing 27th February)
As well as thinking about what we would be saying I also thought about how the video would look, I created a camera plan with a simple three camera set up. A master shot of me and Ben, a close up camera on myself and another close up camera on Ben. I considered set design too but we were limited in terms of how different we could make the set look to other peoples due to the size of the backdrop we were filming in front of. Sometimes it was difficult to position the camera in a manor that hid the studio behind the backdrop we were using for the set but we managed. Our set was set up so that me and Ben where sat on separate sofas angled toward each other like a talk show, we both had designated cameras to look into when delivering certain lines. As well as this I wrote our intro skit around our prop, we had a guitar as our prop to signify that we would be talking about something music related.
Research and notes
In order to talk about the nominees for best song and best score, we need to know who they are and what films they featured in, as well as the difference between the two categories.
BEST ORIGINAL SONG NOMINEES
Oscar nominees from: http://oscar.go.com/news/nominations/oscar-nominations-2017-view-the-complete-list-of-nominees
On the official website for the academy awards there is a section where you can watch all of the musical performances from the night. This was incredibly helpful as it meant that for my second video about the performances I could watch the full clips and take notes, helping me develop a script of things to talk about during the video. http://oscar.go.com/music-moments
As our production company Ufilms we came up with the idea of creating a series of videos all themed around the Oscars. We decided that for two weeks we would create one video a day about the Oscars, we would make a weeks worth of videos before the Oscars and a weeks worth of videos after the Oscars. We did this so that we could present all the build up to the Oscars during the week before and then present all of our reactions during the week after.
We decided we would output our videos on our YouTube channel called Ufilms, all of the videos we created fall under the branding and structure of Ufilms. These means that all of our videos had to be formatted in a similar way. For example we decided that we would create graphics for all of our videos, this included an animated intro and presenter name plates. These graphics where made by Matty and myself respectively.
We came up with a schedule in order to structure our output of videos, we decided that at least one video would be uploaded to the Ufilms YouTube channel each day and that each presenter had to create two videos. Some presenters presented in a pair and others presenter on their own, each video was indented to be informative and entertaining. I decided that I would present my first video with Ben, the video would be on the topic of music and we would discuss all the nominees who were up for both the 'best original score' award and 'best original song' award. My second video would feature just myself and my reactions to the winners of the awards and also my reviews on the musical performances at the academy awards.
We knew that we had to make our videos appeal to our target audience and with our target audience being a similar age and demographic to ourselves we were confident we could do this. Our videos had to be entertaining and informative so that people had a reason to watch them and as presenters we had to be confident and charismatic in order to convey ourselves as knowledgeable sources of information. Research would be key in order to come across like we knew what we were talking about.
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Our video upload schedule went as follows:
Week 1 (Commencing 20th February)
Monday: History of the Oscars
Tuesday: Fashion of the Oscars
Wednesday: Iconic Moments of the Oscars
Thursday: Music of the Oscars
Friday: The nominating process
Saturday: Oscars Predictions
Week 2 (Commencing 27th February)
Monday: Oscars Reactions
Tuesday: The Red carpet
Wednesday: The Music Reaction Show
Thursday: Politics at this years Oscars + After party show
Friday: Facts of the 2017 Oscars
Sunday: Oscars Rundown Conclusion
TASK 2 PART 2:
We will be producing two videos each, one on the week leading up to the Oscars and one on the week prior to Oscars. On the week leading up our videos will focus on the nominees, our predictions and the history of the Oscars whereas the videos we make after the ceremony will focus on the winners and our reactions. Working with Ben Siddle I chose to create my two videos about the music of the Oscars, covering everything from who will be performing on the night to movie soundtracks.
The first video was about the nominees for the music related awards at the Oscars, the video was made so that we could discuss the music from some of the Oscar nominated films and give our opinions on who we thought would win the music related Oscars. Myself and Ben would be the presenters, I had decided that I wanted to structure the video into 4 parts; an introduction, a section about best song, a section about best score and finally a conclusion/outro. Each of the 4 parts would be split up by graphics, this meant that we could record the video in 4 sections making it easier to film. For the first video I conduced my own research and sent Ben research too so I knew he had something to talk about, as well as this I also wrote a script. The concept of the show was that it was a talk show where we both discussed our opinions but I was worried we would run out of things to talk about so I developed a script which covered all the points I wanted to make. The script also included a short skit for the introduction and an outro.
As well as thinking about what we would be saying I also thought about how the video would look, I created a camera plan with a simple three camera set up. A master shot of me and Ben, a close up camera on myself and another close up camera on Ben. I considered set design too but we were limited in terms of how different we could make the set look to other peoples due to the size of the backdrop we were filming in front of. Sometimes it was difficult to position the camera in a manor that hid the studio behind the backdrop we were using for the set but we managed. Our set was set up so that me and Ben where sat on separate sofas angled toward each other like a talk show, we both had designated cameras to look into when delivering certain lines. As well as this I wrote our intro skit around our prop, we had a guitar as our prop to signify that we would be talking about something music related.
Research and notes
BEST ORIGINAL SONG NOMINEES
AUDITION from La La Land; Music by Justin Hurwitz; Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin PaulHOW FAR I'LL GO from Moana; Music and Lyric by Lin-Manuel Miranda CAN'T STOP THE FEELING from Trolls; Music and Lyric by Justin Timberlake, Max Martin and Karl Johan Schuster CITY OF STARS from La La Land; Music by Justin Hurwitz; Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin PaulTHE EMPTY CHAIR from Jim: The James Foley Story; Music and Lyric by J. Ralph and Sting
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE NOMINEES
JACKIE Mica Levi
LA LA LAND Justin Hurwitz
LION Dustin O'Halloran and Hauschka
MOONLIGHT Nicholas Britell
PASSENGERS Thomas Newman
Oscar nominees from: http://oscar.go.com/news/nominations/oscar-nominations-2017-view-the-complete-list-of-nominees
On the official website for the academy awards there is a section where you can watch all of the musical performances from the night. This was incredibly helpful as it meant that for my second video about the performances I could watch the full clips and take notes, helping me develop a script of things to talk about during the video. http://oscar.go.com/music-moments
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