DovydasFilm/TVproduction

At the start of the as live project, everyone had to come up with a live tv idea and prepare a presentation. This could be done individually or in pairs. The live tv idea had to be unique and could be done more than once, not just a one-episode show. After a little talk, me and Glenn decided to work together on this part of the project. I decided to look into the game show Wheel of Fortune for some inspiration when coming up with our idea. Wheel of Fortune is a British television game show in which contestants compete to solve word puzzles similar to the game of hangman in order to win cash and other valuable prizes. The game's title "wheel of fortune" refers to the wheel that is spun throughout the game to determine the amount of money and prizes that are won. Wheel of Fortune debuted in 1975 as an American game show, but it began airing in the United Kingdom on Itv in 1988. At the start of the UK version of Wheel of Fortune, it was very similar to the American version w...

In my opinion, this unit was very interesting and unique because it forced me to step outside of my comfort zone on numerous occasions, for which I am grateful. In this unit, I learned many new skills and refined some that I already owned. We were tasked at the start of the project with coming up with a live television idea that was both unique and achievable, and it had to be something that could be repeated several times. For this part of the project, Glenn and I collaborated to come up with an idea for the show. The first thing I decided to do was look into an antique episode of The Wheel of Fortune from 1995, which was hosted by both Nicky Campbell and Jenny Powell, with Steve Hamilton voicing the show's cutaways. I looked into these shows because I was thinking about doing something that might include a wheel spin in the game and just small clips that I had seen previously. After watching the episode, I realised how important the hosts of the show are. Jenny is a very confiden...

Directing/vision mixing One of the first workshops we had as a live unit was the vision mixing and directing workshop led by JG. A black magic vision mixer, a television screen, and three cameras were used in this experiment. JG demonstrated how live television works during this workshop, as the majority of us had never seen it before. JG demonstrated briefly how the director communicates with the vision mixer operator and how everything appears on the screen. Following that, everyone had the opportunity to try their hand at directing, vision mixing, being one of the three cameras, or even being a stand in. I didn't get a chance to direct the vision mixing that day because I was mostly on camera. However, observing the entire process was very interesting to me. Being on camera was very interesting because you always had to be on it when the director called out shots.  Even though I didn't get to direct that day, I was given the opportunity to do so later in the project when we ...

During the pre-production phase of this project, we were able to conduct a large number of test shoots. The majority of the test shoots took place in the library and gallery, which is fantastic because it allowed everyone to fully learn their roles. Additionally, because we had so many days where we could do test shoots, everyone had the opportunity to try out different roles when we had to switch roles. I think it was great that we were able to switch roles during production because it allows everyone to fully understand what everyone else is going through and what they need to do. I didn't have a set role during the filming at Uca because there wasn't much I could do, but as a result, I had the opportunity to do several different roles during that time and during the test shoot. One of the more common roles I played was that of a stand-in. Being a stand it gave other people the opportunity to test the entire flow of the production and figure out the timings of the show, which...

We were given 11 different sonnets to choose from for the fiction adaptation unit, and we had to choose the one that spoke to us the most. We had 4 weeks total production time with the sonnet of our choice to create an experimental film that was no longer than 5 minutes. We had a variety of workshops at the start of the unit, covering topics such as camera movements, composition, montage, and haiku adaptation. The workshops were extremely beneficial because I learned a variety of things that helped me during the four-week production period. The montage workshop and the haiku adaptation were the ones that helped me the most. We were shown various types of montages during the montage workshop, including metric montages, rhythmic montages, tonal montages, intellectual montages, and over-tonal montages. During the montage workshop, we were shown La Jetée, a 1962 film made entirely of 35 mm film still images. The film's idea and process have inspired me and my thought process throughout...

Mood boards  When studying William Wordsworth's composition on Westminster Bridge, I decided to concentrate on two lines of the people, one of which is "The beauty of the morning; silent, bare." For this part, I've decided to take it literally and capture the sunrise of a beautiful morning, but I'm still undecided about the location I'd like to use for my shoot; however, the images above are what I was thinking of going for. I had the idea of the sun and the moon meeting in some way to tie the two very different ideas together. One way the two could be linked is through a flickering light, the idea of a lightbulb flickering and exploding or shutting off, and the entire mood of the adaptation changing and turning into a type of horror. The second line that I wanted to highlight was "The very houses seem asleep," since it reminded me of abandoned houses, which have a horror connotation. The images above are some of the shoot concepts I was considering ...