Monday 25th April 2016

The Final Curtain 

Today is the last day of recording the shows. For this show I was the sound mixer and felt confident with sound by this time because I was use to understand the set up. The only problems I faced that was getting a battery that worked with the mic and wouldn't keep cutting out also the mic stopped in rehearsal a couple of times because of this. After the first rehearsal I asked the actor to turn of his mic before rehearsing again after I checked the sound levels on play back and made sure they matched up with the VT's. When it came to finally recording this show it was an easy set up by just making sure the mic was turned on and it wasn't that much on show on camera and due to rehearsal before I knew when to cut the mic for the VT's and count down to the camera operators when the VT was coming to an end. This helped them get ready for their next shots and to tell the actor went he can start talking again. I feel this recording went quick and turned out alright. 

Monday 18th April 2016

Its Show Time 

It was time for our final recording and it was a crazy day for our group. Before rehearsal me and Wesley checked that everyone was in their jobs and set up was going to plan. Natasha went out and brought with her all the props to help bring the set to life and even went as far as getting iced tea for the cups to actually make it more realistic when the presenters where picking them up and drinking and adding biscuits just like an afternoon tea with our audience. I went into the control room for give my logo and talk to the rest of our group to see how things were going on. 

Heres the final running order of the times we actually finished everything on the day and some of the problems we faced.  - this is a shorted version from my pre-production paperwork 

Run through - Non-tech - Went well, script is fine with presenters and changes have been made.

Next run through - Lights and sound checked and tested for whole show set up

Next run through - camera tech - set up logo, blue screen, run through script with cameras on, record it and watch back.

Sound check done - 14:16pm

Lighting done - 14:16pm

Camera run through - 14:25pm  - checking presenters know what camera is which.

Recording

VT - 14:27pm adding in with run through

VT 2 - 14:30pm

End of run through - 14:33pm

Break - 14:37pm

End of Break - 15:00pm

Second run through with VTs - 15:15pm

End of run through - 15:23

Watching back the first recording of a run through

Final live recording - 15:43

Ending of live recording - 15:53

I feel our final recording went well and was given good feedback so our group knows what we can improve on next time if we create another show. 

Monday 11th April 2016

Bono No Bono

This was the first week of the final rehearsals. For this group I was standing in for the camera person however on the day of recording the camera person was in so I was placed as a runner and had to make sure things where in place for the group and that they had everything they needed for their final recording. When recording I was in the vision fixer room because I done all my tasks and had to wait to be told to do something in between rehearsals by the groups director.

Saturday 26th March 2016 - Tuesday 29th March 2016

Crew On Tour 

First VT 

This was filmed on the saturday and I packed my equipment ready to film, we all meet up where the old Odeon cinema would of been and thought filming right out side it would be perfect however it was too windy so we thought the best thing for our sound to come out perfect would be to film the voice over inside somewhere and go out after to get more shoots of the old and new Odeon and the area around where both of them would have been

Second VT 

Due to me working I could not help film at the second VT but was sent the recording and edited it together to create my own version of it.

Links 

First
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7W5xcSIFoY

Second 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIwtCzMIKR8

Monday 21st March 2016

VTS FIRST 

This was the last lesson before we broke up so we had to plan when we would film our VTS outside of University in the holidays. 

First VT

About the Beatles and the odeon cinema's history in Southend

Second VT 

About the Cliff Pavilion and the history behind that 

Monday 14th March 2016

Team Work 

Lewis and Natasha came together to put her VT research into a script for our presenter to voice over while I spoke to Wesley about what he would want in our logo and the kind of feel he would want to get across to the audience. In the rest of the lesson we had rehearsals for two of the groups, one of these groups I was the sound for and started getting use to connecting the mic to the vision mixer and getting the sound level right where it wasn't too loud or quiet when on play back. The other group I was standing in for camera because the person was not in that day. I was the camera that focused on the host and the opening and closing of the show, due to me not using the studio cameras that much I looked back at the sheets given out before on how to work the cameras and set it up from there.

Monday 22nd February - Monday 7th March 2016

Rehearsal, Rehearsal, Rehearsal 

The next few weeks were just about getting everything together for the final recording, understand what we want our set to look like and start planning our VT's. Due to Natasha's granddad working the director Wesley wanted to give up the pier VT and come up with a different idea for a VT. Natasha learned more about cinema and the Beatles performing at a cinema that is no longer in Southend so over the next couple of days is going to research more into it.