Finishing Touches

Whilst the directors and co were doing the post-production of both of the game shows which we filmed, I was doing the finishing touches of some of the pre-production paperwork. Ashton, Chantelle and I was doing some of the paperwork which involved the set and props which was completed by the end of the day successfully.

Final Day Shooting!

19/5/11

Show 2

Today, Ashton and I came into college earlier than everybody else to fix some of the problems which we were having during filming with the set, such as the curtains. The curtains were the main problem as they were falling down quite frequently which was a massive problem. Although when we got to college we found out that somebody already fixed this problem, as they has used rope and tied the curtains onto a pole which was hanging from the ceiling. Therefore all what had to be fixed was the drape which was on the hosts' table, I fixed this by placing more gaffa tape onto the back of it which would then stick onto the white material on the table. After these problems had been sorted it was ready rehearse show two.

This time the set wasn't the problem whilst filming, it was the communication. There were mixed messages between the studio and control room which led to problems and a very frustrated producer. Although my role in the show was successful as I was doing the lights, which I thought went well. After I had faded out the lights it was the end of shooting Lights, Camera, Action!
Therefore It was time to take all the set down, which people helped with.

ACTION!

17/5/11

Show 1

Whilst filming we ran into a few problems with the set as the curtains and the drape on the hosts' table kept falling down. Therefore we had to use even more gaffa tape to try and stop this problem, in the end with the drapes I decided that we shouldn't use them for this show due to this problem.

However, filming the game show went reasonably well although there were some problems. At the last minute I had to become the Floor Manager which was not a problem as I previously never had a role for show one. Some other problems whilst filming was that the host was getting a bit mixed up and also the autocue went off. Although I believed we overcame these problems and day one shooting was successful.

Setting Up!

17/5/11

Today everyone helped me and Ashton help set up for the game show. This took a little while as the curtains was quite tricky to put up as someone forgot to bring the fishing wire, so we had to use gaffa tape. I believe the set looks nearly identical to what I had planned it to look like which made the set look professional.

Contestants Tables



Hosts Table

The Finished Set

Rehearsals!

Before filming we had quite a few rehearsals to make sure we wouldn't run into problems. Everybody seemed to know what to do including the presenters and camera people.

Security!

26/4/11

Today we had a group meeting to discuss what people had done as part of their homework in their holidays, it appeared that only a few members os the group had done anything. This included me and the other set designers, as I had to bring in the Popcorn and Camera which I had made into College today. Therefore the other members of the group have to produce their bits of work this week which should of been done previously, such as the script and questions. 

The set people, including me, had to go down to security in the College and ask about using their security bars as part of our set design. They told us to write an email and get our tutor to send it, so we came back upstairs and wrote a draft email which we then gave to our tutor.

Arts & Craft!

During the first few days of the Easter Holidays I went into an arts shop and Homebase to get the necessarily materials that I needed.

Such as;
Pink Paint
Black Paint
Paint Brushes
A2 Paper
Tissue Paper
Card Paper
Several Cardboard Boxes
2x CD/DVD's




This is a Popcorn design which I made, which will go on one of the curtains behind one of the teams tables. I placed a DVD next to it, so that you can see the size of the Popcorn.


To make this I had to stick two A2 sheets of paper together and count the diameter's going across so I would get accurate diagonal sides.Once I did that, I was able to paint some sections pink. When that was dry I went over the lines with a marker pen and placed 'Popcorn' in tissue paper on. For the actual popcorn, I had to scrunch up yellow tissue paper ad glue them downh

This is a Movie Camera. 


 To make this Movie Camera, I firstly painted a small cardboard box black. When this was drying I moved onto making the lenses by using card paper and tissue paper. I made a small card box and placed a big black tissue paper inside it, to look like the lens. I painted two DVD's for the reels of the camera, which I then placed into a slot on top of the painted cardboard box.

 


This is a big question mark which I used out of left over material. This question mark could go on the front of the main Presenter table.