Studio Production: 'What You Sayin?' Show Brief & Group Meeting

So, What is 'What You Sayin?'

So Helen was given the producer role for her reality debate show called 'What You Sayin?' In brief, the debate show is aimed at the younger generation (16-25 year olds) and focuses on a variety of debates, ranging from serious to light-hearted topics. The show follows a similar structure to the known debate show 'Loose Women' however has been altered to adapt to the younger audience - this is evident for not just the topics but also for the panelists and presenters swell, whom will be within (or near) this target age.

Below is Helen's pitch which she presented when myself and the other students presented:




Once we were briefed about what her show is and her potential ideas, we had our first meeting which generally was discussing into depth on the decisions for the content for the debate show. Below is what we as a class came up with:

Graffiti: Art or Vandalism?

The first topic we all came to an agreement with was the topic of graffiti. This was one of Helens original ideas and of course the debate will revolve around whether graffiti is classed as vandalism or art. As this is a debate show, the show will need outspoken, opinionated people which for this have to be either for or against graffiti to enable an effective debate to take place.

Nonetheless, in terms of content, we needed to decide what the VT itself will actually be (and for the other 3 topics). Originally, the VT was going to be used as a mini-documentary which explains to the audience what graffiti is, and highlighting the types of graffiti (i.e. illegal graffiti and commercial graffiti). However, this idea had to be scrapped purely because of the short amount of time we have for each VT (2-3 minutes, 3 minutes max) plus some people argued whether it would actually be effective or not as most people do know what graffiti is.

What we had to make sure was that the VT doesn't already involve a debate. This means we wouldn't be able to argue for and against it within the VT, otherwise the debate show itself won't have much more to stay. Thus, this means that we either had to be for or against, or just biased so that the debate doesn't start.

Moving on, we eventually came to an idea for the VT. This was to 'set up' one of the panelists to go on a graffiti tour in London to explore what graffiti is like. This remains biased and creates something entertaining for the audience to view. Plus, more importantly it will set up a debate by allowing the people 'for' graffiti to ask why he/she didn't enjoy the tour.

Reaction Video: Has 'Jump Scare' in games been removed? And are games far too violent?

This debate revolves around whether games are too violent for users to play, leading onto the debate about whether we, as gamers, become desensitised from things like gore which may lead to some people to 'copy' the acts within the game. To enable this debate to commence, Helen wants to find people whom have never played on game consoles and give them a violent or scary game, and of course filming their reactions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHoOrFdgYR8

This is a similar idea to the link above, which shows elderly people playing the violent game 'Grand Theft Auto V'. The purpose is purely to show people's reactions to the harsh violence of the game which can set up the argument in the debate as to whether video games are too violent or not. Alternatively, Helen then mentioned that we could do a reaction video of people playing a scare game, to see whether games are still scary or if this idea of 'jump scare' is slowly dissolving.

The main problem with this VT is of course it's originality - its clear that this idea of game/film reaction videos has been done before and people know what to expect. Therefore, this idea is likely to change which I well mention once final decisions have been made.

Domestic Abuse, Prank Reaction Video: Why aren't we worried with Male Abuse?

The third debate is about domestic abuse and how we perceive this idea that it is always the male who beats the female. This VT will consist of a public prank video showing a female 'bullying' her male partner, and of course filming their reaction. This has been done before however only on a couple of occasions, but we will be needing this VT to enable the debate to show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtVHnZX8E50&oref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DdtVHnZX8E50&has_verified=1

Above is a link showing the reactions of people when a female is abusing the male, similar to what we plan to do.

As a group, we haven't discussed this matter much however we agreed that for this to work the area needs to reasonably controlled to enable this to work much more efficiently. For example, a high street would be difficult to film on due to consent reasons, etc. Therefore somewhere like a hairdressers would be perfect - everyone could be notified before and Helen mentioned that we could be stand ins and 'react' to an argument between a couple in the audience. And instead, everyone apart from one person could be notified that is a prank, so that there is only one person who doesn't know.

Self Esteem: Are Men's esteem being destroyed by photoshop now editing men?

This debate is about whether the self-esteem of men is becoming lowered as now male models are now being photoshopped and enhanced. A perfect example of this would be Justin Bieber's recent shoot for Calvin Klein, where the video below clearly shows how his body has been enhanced.

This idea too hasn't been discussed too much as we've only briefed on it, however Ruby came up with the idea for the VT by showing how much photoshop can change people's appearance by simply photoshopping either a model or simply anyone. The purpose of this is to help to boost people's confidence and to show how models are likely to be edited, plus enabling a serious debate to happen.This debate will focus on whether it is good or bad that this happens.