TV - Week 13

Today was the live show. We had a few practice run throughs before hand but advised everyone that the more run throughs we did would mean that the live show would't be as authentic or as good as we wanted it to be. There was almost no conflict today and we managed to get it done in one take which 99% of the whole team was really happy with. Apart from a couple of minor errors the show turned out to be really good and we were all happy to call it a day with the first take.

TV - Week 12

This week was again just run throughs except we wanted to make a few changes. This didn't go as well as it should have done as there was conflict with the sound team about the fact that the captains and the presenter felt that one of the rounds on the show wasn't working. After a heated discussion between us we finally managed to change the round to one that made us feel more comfortable doing on the show and also that was better than the original idea.
However, even then it still hadn't been sorted out as due to lack of communication from the production room to the studio, the idea had been changed and we were unsure of what we were supposed to be doing. After yet another discussion with the sound team, we the captains, presenter and the producer finally came to an agreement on the final round which was the best idea out of all 3 and worked the best.
Due to the lack of communication of the production side, a lot of the time those in the studio who didn't have headphones or means to hear what was going on in the production room, there was a lot of confusion about what was happening most of the time even if we asked what was going on. After each run through the producer would come through and talk to us about what was good and what was bad which was extremely helpful. We were able to put new ideas across and change parts that didn't suit the show to make it better.

TV - Week 11

This week we went for a run through of the show which went well considering how unorganised and what lack of communication between the production team and the crew there was. Initially the idea was to have an autocue for us to read from however after much deliberation we managed to get rid of the autocue and the captains and the presenter decided to just memorise the scripted parts of what we were going to say. However as it was meant to be a live show called bandta there need to be banter in the show and reading from a memorised script or from an autocue wouldn't create the right tone on camera so we managed to agree that we would only loosely read from a script and the rest would just come naturally during the recording.

TV - Week 10

We had just been on a break for 3 weeks due to it being the Easter holidays. During that time a group inbox was created within the TV group so that we could all communicate with each other whilst we weren't at uni. As one of the people who went home for the holidays, I wasn't able to attend any of the sessions that had been organised by our group which was unfortunate due to the fact that I was both on the show and part of writing it. 

Once we got back, those who had stayed over the holidays had managed to record two songs from a band that was going to feature in the show. However, we also discovered that the script had been written too even though me and the other team captain and the presenter had to be involved with that too. 

TV - Week 9

Luckily I didn't miss much after missing the week before. I found out what the idea for the tv show was which was a music quiz type of show, much like Never Mind the Buzzcocks. This was good as for the radio show we had done a music based show which meant that it was similar. This session we picked roles for people and I didn't know what I wanted to do prior to this. I had interests in being part of the editing team however as it was a live production, the editing is different to what I am used to doing. I also was interested in being part of the production team however all of those roles were taken up fast. It wasn't until Lianne suggested that her and I become the team captains and are actually in front of the camera that I even considered being on the show. As it turned out, it wasn't enough for us just to be on the show so we had to be involved with the writing of the show and contributing ideas and work with the director and writer. This was good because that meant that I was able to be involved in the production of the show.

TV - Week 8

Unfortunately I went home at the weekend and fell ill and was out of uni all week which meant that I missed the first week of TV

Radio - Week 7

This week was the week that we did the live show. Although I wasn't on air I was still nervous about doing it. Our presenter was nervous to start off with but after a few minutes the show was going well and all our timings were correct. As it got to the end of the show, it appeared we had 1 minute left and so managed to fill it with live talk which meant that the whole show was a success.

Radio - Week 6

This week we did a run through of the radio show. As I wasn't speaking live on the radio it was my job to produce a script so that there was an order to follow on the day of the broadcast. I wrote what each presenter was going to say, roughly at least, and then managed to timings of the interviews we had already recorded a few days ago and also the songs that we had decided to play. After a couple of run throughs, we decided on the final script which I later typed up that night to make it easier to read.
We had also arranged to do an interview over the phone which turned out to be the best interview out of all three of them. Unfortunately, due to some technical faults, the interview didn't record properly which meant that the script had to be changed around to fit more live talking in to make up for the lost time.



Here is the final script:

Hi I’m Lianne and welcome to the Sunderland Success Show with me, Alex, Lauren and Ollie. On today’s show we will be talking about the success of bands from across the North East.

Coming up in the next half hour we have interviews from 2 local bands; Cohesion and Frankie and the Heartstrings.

The first song I’ve got to play for you is by Maximo Park who recently headlined 6 music festival in Newcastle. Here’s: Girls Who Play Guitars

SONG - GIRLS WHO PLAY GUITARS (3:02)

Now to start off the show we have an interview with local band Cohesion who are a 5 piece indie-rock band from Sunderland. 

They’ve also supported bands like Frankie and the Heartstrings alongside Split Festival and Maximo Park.

Ollie caught up with them last week for a chat.

INTERVIEW

SONG - LUNA (4:22)

WE ARE SPARK?

{{{SONG - UNGRATEFUL? (3:56)}}}

Still to come on today’s show we have Heartbeat by The Futureheads and an interview with Frankie and the Heartstrings. But first we have another song from the local band Alexander, this is Drive.

SONG - DRIVE (3:43)

Now we’ve got the interview by the more well-known band from Sunderland - Frankie and the Heartstrings.

Me and Alex went down to their record shop, Pop Recs, in Sunderland City Centre, where we spoke to one of the members of the band.

INTERVIEW

SONG - HUNGER (2:53)

That was Frankie and the Heartstrings with Hunger. Hopefully be hearing new music from them soon. And finally, to finish the show for today we have a song by a local band The FutureHeads; Heartbeat.

SONG - HEARTBEAT (2:25)

WE ARE SPARK?

NEWS?

Radio - Week 5

This week we finalised what roles each of us were going to have. As I needed to be on air but didn't feel I'd be best suited to be a presenter on the live show it was agreed that I would record one of the interviews with one of the bands we had arranged to record. I wrote up some original questions to ask them on the day of the interview to make it run smoother and faster. I also had the role of writing the script which involved talking with the whole group about what songs we were going to have and once we had the interviews recorded, deciding what the presenters were going to talk about on the show.

Radio - Week 4

This week we decided on a final idea in our group for what our radio show was going to be about. We had decided to do it about local bands which would allow us to go and get interviews to make up some pre-recorded content. Originally we wanted to name the show the local music show but it turned out that there was already a show with that name so we had to scrap that idea and come up with something else. The local bands we deceided to interview were Frankie and the Heartstrings, the Futureheads and Cohesion.
We arranged for me to interview Frankie and the Heartstrings down at their local store in town Pop Recs.

Radio - Week 3

This week I didn't go in because I was too ill.

Radio - Week 2

This week we focused more on our group radio project. We got ourselves into groups of around 3-4 people and I am working with Lauren, Lianne and Ollie to create our 30 minute radio show. We also went into one of the radio booths to learn the very basics of 'driving the desk' where we were also told about how to get the perfect sound out of the microphone by its position and how far away you should be from it to get the best sound.
Back in the room we had to start thinking about ideas we would do our radio show on. The first idea that our group came up with was to do it on the best and worst film musicals as well as their sound tracks for example how successful frozen has been over the past year and then also move onto the best and worse film scores which would include music from composers such as Hans Zimmer.

Radio - Week 1

This was our first week of the new module of Introduction to Television and Radio Broadcast and for the first 7 weeks I have been put into the radio group. In this first session we were introduced to live radio as well as multiplatform content too. We learnt what our projects would be for this semester:

Assessment 001 Production of studio-based television programming: You will undertake one or more roles in the production of live and prerecorded content for a live programme. A group marked will be awarded for this unit

Assessment 002 Production of live radio programming of 30 minutes in duration: You will undertake one or more roles in the production of live and prerecorded content for a live programme.

Assessment 003 This unit will assess you individually: Marks are awarded for performance and commitment. You will write an ongoing reflective blog and then will consolidate your thoughts into an appropriate reflective essay of 1000 words

Week 14

Video hand in week:-

Week 13

In the final week we were told how to upload our videos to high quality from Avid to Youtube. We also learnt how to export our files and convert them to help upload them to YouTube.