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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