So, for our factual tv show, me and my team are going to make a cooking show in which we record and show the audience how to make your typical meal for the day, like a normal cooking show like Jamie Oliver, not quite like the GBBO, which is more of a competition based programme.
Each of our team members play a separate roll in the cooking or preparing the food part in the tv show, using resources from our own homes. Since there is three of us, we thought it would be practical for each of us to cook a certain meal of the day; breakfast, lunch, and dinner. So, each of us are going to film our own separate scene of the show from our own households, which will be considered as our own filming parts of the factual tv programme. Since we will be shooting away from each other, we will most likely be using a tripod and our phones to film the certain shots of our tv program.
Each of these shots will be presented one after another in the tv programme, as if going through the day and each meal that you would have during it.
This show will consist of many different types of filming and camera angles like there would be in any regular cooking related programme. And voice overs, explaining to the viewers about the process and the development as you go through the show. There might also be some Piece to Camera shots with the presenter explaining directly to the audience the process. And maybe even an interview with a separate actor (family member, or friends) testing the produced food and giving a review or talking about the certain subject of the of the food either one of us are preparing.
This show will be different from the other as it covers all of the daily meals one after another and how other people make and prepare their own types of meals compared to how other do.
Feedback:
The feedback we got from the teacher about this was that what we were comparing it to was not entirely clear. The original idea was to base it off Jamie Olivers cooking shows, but recently we just found out that he has multiple different shows for multiple different things on the same subject; like one where he was interviewing other people and their life style of food and cooking, another where he has a timed based cooking programme, and another where he goes to different locations and try the food their, not quite the style genre of factual tv we were planning on taking inspiration from.
So we decided to narrow it down to particular episodes and series of Jamie Oliver that do relate to our particular theme of cooking and presenting.
Anything thing that I want to take into consideration, which is another point from the feedback we got, was that our idea was to ambitious and that the whole thing will take too long to be cut down to a 1 to 5 minute tv programme. So we came up with this idea to make the entire programme just based around the most simplest things that a normal collage student can make for themselves for the three key meals of the day. This might make the producing of this short video clip a lot easier and without having to give too much information to the viewers so that they become overwhelmed and confused about what's going on and they get the plot of the cooking show.
Recce
Locations
There will be multiple different locations used in this factual TV show, each different one for each of the topics that will be covered in the video clip. Each of the sets will be held in the kitchen area in each of our team mates house holds, where each of us will shoot our own separate seen covering the topics (that we will set for each other) that we had planned for this factual tv video, which are the main meals of the day, as said in the Pitch above.
Recce 1 - My own house hold
Talent Test Reel
Props and Costumes
Props
The props used in this short video may just be some regular cooking equipment and utensils, for short periods of time in each scene of the clip where we might be cooking or preparing some food to display. Things like; pots and pans, cutting knifes, spoons, bowls, and a cutting board.
I don't know if the food used in this clip also counts as props, and if they are, the food used in this will consist of anything available that each of our team members has to offer in their households and work with that (it should be simple, e.g. breakfast could just be them making a bowl of cereal).
Costumes
The costumes used in this clip will be pretty simple. They will just consist of each of our team members wearing aprons, or gloves, or any other small gesture that would suggest to the viewer that this is a cooking based TV program.
If my team members don't not poses these items, I can provide them with aprons and other costumes that I have in my household. I will have to ask for permission first, but I am confident that my parents will allow me to borrow them for a short period of time.
Equipment
This factual tv video clip, as said above, will be shot in three separate video clips, each member in my team will shoot one of these clips in their own households. Which means the main equipment we must all acquire is a tripod, and some sort of phone stand to hold our phones in place on the tripod, as we will be using our phones for the shooting of the clip. We can acquire some of these items at the collage. If not, than I will lend my own to my team mates if they need it, and we might even manage to get together and assist one another with anything they require in order to get the scene completed.
Other equipment required, for myself primarily, as said in the Recce above, is some more lighting of some kind, a portable light source. It is up to my team mates if they think their working environments require similar lighting improvements, if they do, I will be their to assist.
Script
We separated the script for this video clip between the three of us in our team, each script for the tree different parts in our TV show, which each of us will use to film our scenes of the show at our own house holds, which we will then put together at the end of our filming.
Script 1 - First Segment of Video clip - William O'Carroll FitzPatrick
Script 2 - Second Segment of Video clip - Becky Hunter
Personally, I think there were a few things that were done well in this factual tv program, but there were a lot more things that could have been improved on. I think, due to the current situation, it made it a lot harder for me and my group to work together on this project to get a better result.
I think that the only real thing that was good about it was that we actually managed to record all the footage and put it together to get something tangible. But everything else about this video, all the components were terrible. There wasn't enough planning so all our scripts and shot lists were random and didn't work with each other. We worked independently in our own households which meant we used our own resources and techniques, which, again, made each of the segments in the video random from one another, thus making the whole video a bit confusing.
So in my opinion, this wasn't the best project I've done, there were a lot of things that could have made it better, the correlation of it all was the main thing in my opinion. This is something I will take into account for my next project. As I will be doing it alone, I feel that I will have better control of it and better coordination when recording it. Which will make the footage a lot more smooth and consistent through the entirety of it, as said in the review below.
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