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!
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