Pre Production Roles and Group Round (COVERED IN EVALUATION)

Here are the notes we generated as a group on potential questions for the film round.

In our own groups, we have 4 roles, one of which is content producer who overall manages or in other words in charge of the round, Post-Production producer (who is in charge of the VT's and any other digital compilations. There is also the technical producer who makes sure that things are possible, and finally the art director who is in charge of the appearance of the set and the overall layout on how it will appear upon camera.

For pre-production, I took on the role of Art Director and as such it was my job to design a set and to make sure the overall appearance would work upon camera, keeping a keen eye on certain colours we used upon set, as this could contradict with the theme of our show. In the end we all decided to pick the roles ourselves, Stuart was Round Producer, and Lauren worked within post production and Andy in Technical, we helped each other out with various tasks, this worked well as we all got on as a group and came up with similar ideas.

During per-production, I drew up some potential ideas for the set, we looked at past examples on what had been done and try to improve upon this, the design replicated around the set table that was trapezium shaped containing the host at the top and two sets of talent either side.

I then discussed with Peter on how the set was going to be placed and other items that were vital amongst the studio floor, such as floor monitors and placement of pedestal cameras. After our research was gathered we could then get started on painting the set, I wanted to stick with dark colours as it went well with our theme of being a night city scape and wouldn't interrupt with contrast amongst the cameras. After the flats were painted we then started to construct.

Our entire pre-production process went swimmingly and it helped a lot that we worked together so well as a team. I wasn't really keeping myself on a one railway track, I went off the edges to help other people in roles such as sorting out some of the content within our film round, creating the music and audio stings within the show and helping to get the running order together. As a group, we all stretched out a arm and a leg to get problems dealt with. I loved my role, I haven't really done art since GCSE in year 11, it was good to regenerate some artistic flair again, it was a large project and with the anticipation of people helping to paint flats, we got it done a lot more efficiently.