The journal of the role i played in the Live TV Quiz Show. CULTURE CITY

week one:

During the first week of our multi-camera project, we were divided into small groupsof four. It was from these groups that we were each assigned a role to perform in the show. i choose to be the Art Director. As an Art director it was my job to draw out ideas for a set design. This included ideas for colours, logos and layout of the set. After the class decided a theme for the quiz show, each group was given a round to work on. As the theme of our quiz show was Media, our group was given the television round to focus on.

Week two

The second week was more productive than the first. During then second week me and the other Art Directors got together and voiced our ideas and opinions on each others ideas for a set. Eventually we all decided that we were going to somehow created a city-scape. We thought that this was a good effective idea for a set design as it tied in with the idea of a Media theme because a city is full of advertising and culture. We also drew up a rough design of what we could put on the set.

Week three

During the third week, i mostly just painted the set. I painted the sky on all of the flats, drew the buildings, and painted the city scape onto the boards. Later that week I painted the lights in the building for the set to make it seem more realistic as a cityscape in Silhouette. i also set of to create a logo for the project, and i came up with the idea of having the name of the show in an over lapping crossword grid. It was then decided that the show would be named Culture City.

Week four

This week we finished off the flats and began rehearsals using the last groups script. We each rotated through different roles within the studio, this was really fun as it gave us the chance to have a go at lots of the different roles. I was on camera through most of the reheasals, but i also found my self vision mixing and playing the role of a contestant. i enjoyed being a camera man the most and i decided that it was what i wanted to in the live shoot.

Week five

This week we spent everyday doing rehearsals, I got to have a go on sound and perfecting camera operation. Both roles I enjoyed and found no difficulty performing, but I decided that i preffered to operate the camera. i enjoyed being a cameraman because it gave me the hands on experience that i want to gain from my time on the course. during the reheasals i found my self gaining in confidence with my camera work and with my self in general. i feel that being part of a large team boosted my confidence with the group. i am very happy with the turn out of our quiz show. i think that everyone performed there roles with very little error and that our final product was very much worth the effort that everybody put into it. i am very pleased with the work i did on the set design, i dont think we could have done anything else that would have worked quite as good as our design did. i also thought that stuart did a very good job as director, I also asked Stuart if I could use some of his pictures on my blog because he had taken pictures of our set. i have enjoyed this project very much.