Now that we've all been allocated in our groups, Helen decided to set us a workshop to get us working together and to get productive. The workshop differed to each groups (e.g. ours differed to the producer team) however my group had to choose a VT and pretty much script and film it. Of course, this is only a workshop so aspects such as cast and locations aren't entirely important - it is mainly just the content that matters.
Grafitti VT
As our group is quite big, we split into 2 groups: one group would do the graffiti VT, whilst the other would do the game reaction VT, as these two seemed to be the best VTs to choose as we haven't done much work on the other 2. Nonetheless, we begun by discussing about the script - picking out the basics such as where we are going to shoot, the tone of our VT, and so on.
How Do We Plan to Film It?
As the whole purpose of this VT is to show a panelist whom doesn't agree with graffiti, the general tone has to be entertaining and more importantly funny. As well as this, the VT shouldn't have a debate already - the purpose is to set one up for the live show to continue. This means that we should either stay biased or stick to the for or against side, and NOT have the debate within the VT.
Nonetheless, as discussed in my previous 'VT Development' post, we've decided to stick with the idea of following one of the panelists around as we surprise him/her that he/she will be going on a graffiti tour. Of course, we don't have access for this yet as it is in London, so we decided to drive around our local towns to search for any signs of graffiti which we could the use for this 'tour'.
Moving on, we too are sticking with the idea of creating a journalistic style of filming. This means that we will be following our panelists around whilst he/she is on the tour. Which of course, this means we are sticking 'against' graffiti however we are only following the panelist around, so technically we are still biased as we aren't adding in our own opinions. We aim to make this as similar as our original plan so that when we are actually filming we will begin to work out what exactly we want, plus more importantly we will receive feedback which hopefully is about the scripting for this workshop.
Script
We then put our ideas together into a brief script, which you can see below:
As this is only a rough draft, we made some amendments once actually filming. For example, we decided not to have other people on the tour to make it seem like a private tour, and some extra locations were added as it seemed that most of the graffiti had been erased in places where we thought it was. The script also doesn't include cutaways as we hadn't gone out and looked for graffiti before hand due to it being very time consuming.
Additionally, our producer also changed the length on which our VTs should be from 3 minutes to no longer than 2 minutes. This means that we have to remove some content however we only found this out after we had finished editing our VT.
Below is our groups roles for the day's filming:
- Sophie: Producer/ Director
- Tim: Director
- Me: Main Camera
- CK: Assistant Camera/Sound
- Mark: Actor (Panelist, against graffiti)
- Mike: Actor (Tour Guide), Sound assistant
- Andrei: Sound
Final Draft (Edited by our VT team)
The original idea for the workshop was to film our piece and then edit another team's work which they've done. However, we decided to edit ours instead purely because we know exactly how we wanted it to be edited and feel that we may not get the same product if the other team were to edit it. This is mainly because all of our content was in mixed locations - Mike had the sound on his Zoom, the cutaways were on CK's camera, and the footage was on the camera which I used.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1K0gnP-Pm0
How Did It Go?
All in all, I feel that this workshop proved to be helpful and we all now know what it is like to film together. The workshop has given me an insight into how we can film this for real. For example, getting the panelist's reactions, different styles of filming cutaways, etc. The video we produced is however only a draft and has had little time into the editing stages. For example, we didn't have a soundtrack, and there are some dodgy parts in terms of sound and continuity.
Nonetheless, for the actual VT, we are also planning on some extra bits of content. For example, we want to get the panelist to graffiti him/herself, as well as some establishing shots which help to add to the gritty nature behind graffiti. All in all, this has given us all a better understanding of graffiti itself, which hopefully will make us much more prepared for the actual VT itself.
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