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Studio Production Unit: Changing from Camera to Sound

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After finding out my job had changed to sound, I was very nervous but also intrigued as to what this role involved. I’ve worked on sound before for previous shoots, but that has always involved one type of mic (usually boom or clip mic) and with no sound mixer to control while filming. As there wasn’t long until the shoot day, I had to learn how to use all the sound equipment in a matter of days, with having only a couple of rehearsals to practice my role. The first real eye opener for me was how important sound is for a live production, and the amount of mics you have to think about at the same time.


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Studio Production Unit: Politics VT Shoot Day

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The Politics VT shoot arrived and I felt very organised due to the preparation leading up to it. We organised the travel and times of where we were going to meet Dave the presenter, and got there early enough to set up and brief everyone. As I was the director, I took responsibility of leading everyone to the relevant locations, as well as boosting the team morale throughout the day. The shoot went great; apart from we struggled with a vox pops section due to not being able to find any young people in the pub we chose prior to the shoot. This meant we had to film that section another day in a more controlled environment. Shooting vox pops was very difficult as it meant relying on the public on the day, and the sound wasn’t great due to not being in a controlled environment. I have definitely learnt how to tackle these situations now due to this shoot, and I know that next time I shoot a vox-pops segment, I will choose a controlled location to ask them questions, and make sure my target audience is in the place I want them to be. Margate is an interesting setting, so I made sure that we got plenty of cutaway shots. These shots are always vital as it gives the editor shots to cut to, as well as helping the audience understand where the video is taking place. Dave the presenter was very good and professional, and he was very helpful as he agreed to film the same scenes multiple times as I wanted plenty of coverage.



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Studio Production Unit: Domestic Violence VT Call Sheet

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Made a list of times and roles so my team know exactly what is going on prior to the shoot:



9am - Crew arrive
10am - Actors arrive - Emma and Jamie
12pm - Rory “head shot”
1pm - Beth “head shot”
BREAK
2:30pm - Louis “audition”


Producer - Sophie

Director - Danny

Camera - Andrei

Sound - Mark

Sound Assistant - Mike

iPad Camera - Illy

Waiting room stand ins - Hannah + Babs

Audition room stand ins - Roxanne + Andy

Runner with “victims” - Helen

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Studio Production Unit: Edited Domestic Violence Script

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Visual
Sound
Duration (secs)
Blurred clip of a male shouting at a female (domestic violence)
Graphics of statistics appear
COMM: “Domestic violence leads to, on average, two women being murdered each week and 30 men per year. This problem is becoming all too common in England and Wales; yet only 35% of domestic violence incidents are reported to the police”
00:00 – 00:10
INT; Door saying: “waiting room”
Opens door and camera begins to walk in
COMM: “Which is why we have set up a social experiment to see how the innocent public react to these actions taking place.. right in front of their eyes..”
00:10 – 00:16
INT; PAN of “waiting room”, pausing and highlighting each hidden camera
Graphic of actors and actress’ face pops up
COMM: “ We have carefully placed hidden cameras here... here… and here… so we can capture their reactions to the violence. Which will be performed by our professional actors NAME and NAME”
00:16 – 00:30
INT; Door closes with a sign saying “Auditions in process”
COMM: “Let the experiment begin”
00:30 – 00:35
INT; L/S Various clips, from the hidden cameras, of the innocent “victims” walking in and being shown to the “waiting room”
General chat between runner and the “victim”
“So how was your journey?”
“Been to the studios before?”
“This is where you’ll be auditioning”
00:35 – 00:45
INT; HIDDEN CAMERAS inside the “waiting room” where the “victims” sit in their designated seat
Runner: “if you’d like to sit down and look at the script”
00:45 – 00:50
INT; L/S of actor/actress walking in from the audition…
M/S of the other actor/actress hanging up the phone abruptly
C/U of “victims” reactions
M/S of phone being smacked out of users hand
L/S of actor/actress pushing/slapping
L/S of abuser walking out
C/S of “victims” reactions
Actors: “Who was that?”
“No one, sit down.. How was the audition?”
“Do you really think I’m that stupid?”
“Calm down, we’ll sort this out later”
“No, we are going to settle this right now!!”
00:50 – 01:20
Runner comes in, tells them it’s an experiment and then shows the “victims” an iPad so they can watch their own reactions and talk it through, answering questions
COMM: “So what were your initial thoughts when you saw the confrontation?”
“Why did you/didn’t react?”
“Would you have reacted differently if the gender roles were switched?”
01:20 – 01:50
Sequence of clips of the reactions of the “victims”
COMM: “As you can see; domestic violence is not nice for anyone to experience.. Hopefully victims and spectators will speak up when it counts.”
01:50 – 02:00

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Studio Production Unit: Domestic Violence VT Shot List

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Shot list for domestic violence:

INT; PAN of “waiting room”

 L/S Various clips, from the hidden cameras, of the innocent “victims” walking in and being shown to the “waiting room”

 Go PROs - hidden cameras inside the “waiting room” where the “victims” sit in their designated seat

 L/S of actor/actress walking in from the audition…

 M/S of the other actor/actress hanging up the phone abruptly

 C/U of “victims” reactions

 M/S of phone being smacked out of users hand

 L/S of actor/actress pushing/slapping

 L/S of abuser walking out

C/S of “victims” reactions

 M/S in an interview format

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Studio Production Unit: Equipment for Domestic Violence Shoot

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This is a big shoot with multiple rooms being used; therefore lots of different equipment are needed to cover all angles. We only get one take for each set up, so we have to make sure all the equipment are suitable and in place properly. Here is a list of what we are going to use:

iMac in Lecture room 2 - recording the room via quicktime and webcam

2 GoPro cameras in Lecture room 2 hidden amongst the chairs

Audio recorder underneath table in Lecture room 2 to record all audio

Clip mics on actors in Lecture room 2

2 iMacs in base room 2 - recording the test subjects walking past

DSLR In production room 1 (the auditioning room) filming out into the corridor

DSLR in Base room 1 mixed in with tripods next to printer recording victims walking through door




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Studio Production Unit: Domestic Violence Treatment

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PURPOSE – Social experiment to show publics reaction to male on female/female on male violence and people's preconceptions.
Location: Board room, Maidstone Studios
The idea-outline
We are setting up a fake audition to take place within the TV studios. However, taking the audition will be 3 real applicants (each at different times) sitting with the fake auditionees while unaware of the stunt taking place. During the auditions, a couple whom will be inside the waiting room with the rest of the auditionees will have a fight on two separate occasions, one with the man hitting the women, the other with the women hitting the man. The whole point of this is to see how the applicants will react during both circumstances.
The Test subject will be greeted at the door by the assistant producer, then walked through base room 1 into base room 2, past the auditioning room (where auditions will be taking place (actor 1 will be getting auditioned)) and told to wait in the auditioning waiting room.
When they enter this room there will be 3 fake actors waiting inside, one of whom will be actor 2. Once the Test subject is seated, after a while of waiting actor 1 will then enter into the room and sit next to actor 2, and the assistant producer will call through a fake actor to the auditioning room.

Because actor 1 has seen actor 2 quickly put away a mobile phone, this makes actor 1 suspicious and being to question actor 2 accusing them of cheating. After a few seconds this becomes a heated discussion with actor 1 intimidating and quietly harming actor 2, using threatening behaviour in the process, actor 2 will quietly shout out in agonising pain to signify that they’re being heart. While this is happening we will be waiting to see if the test subject will react or say anything to what is taken place in front of them.

The plan
Auditioners
5 people  
3 - Fake actors - Seated in the waiting room
1 - Actor (in waiting room) Jamie Edwards
1 - Actress (in waiting room) Emma Fitchett
1 - Actor/tress getting auditioned - will be Jamie or Emma
Fake producers/director
3 people
2 - In the auditioning room
1 - introducing the auditioners and guiding them to the waiting room
Test subjects
Beth
Rory
Louie

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