Shooting Day

Today us our shooting day (09.12.13) . Our team have been spending the morning preparing the lighting plan and set. 

Callum and Adam have been plugging in the lights and testing the lighting plan. Safety precautions have been taken for example ensuring the ladder is secure. Health and safety forms have been filled in.

Coloured gels have been placed all of the back lights by myself and Adam.We then directed the lights into the plastic transparent chairs which proved extremely effective. The colored lights have contributed to the overall aesthetic of the set.

Leia has been getting all of our signs and cards printed on high quality paper, cutting out the cue cards and has brought refreshments for cast and crew.

We also ensured that our set is tidy but vacuuming the carpet

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We set up all of our shooting equipment. This consisted of three cameras, three tripods and a boom mic. As well as boom poles, lighting poles and extra batteries.

Having briefed our talent we got on with filming. We enlisted the help of Finn as a boom operator and Ollie as clapper loader.

We ran into difficulties during production when the bachelor females didn't turn up or couldn't make it. We did have reserves in place however they were not contactable and as a group we had to think fast. We reshuffled the boys and had some friends of our talent who were watching take part. I had to step in as the female singleton. This was not ideal but sufficient enough to get the footage we needed. We had to improvise and because of this we will have to redo the video tapes in the green room. We ran into a few problems with the camera batteries running out but we had extra batteries and had planned for this in our contigency plan.

Pre Production notes- Casting and Group Meeting

Today we spoke to a group of boys on a sports course in college to see if they would be interested in participating in our dating show TV pilot. This was based on a suggestion from one of our tutors and facilitated by group member Adam Sutcliffe. We explained to them what the shooting day would entail, what they would need to bring with them with regards to clothing and then asked which one of them would like to play a principal part in The Blind Matchmaker.

Darrell nominated himself as the singleton and then proceeded to answer the questions required for us to make our VT of him. This VT would give the bachelorettes an insight into his personality and interests. The questions were composed by Leia and we handpicked a few to be included in the VT. These questions and Darrell's answers are as follows:

1. If you could have any superpower what would it be?

I would choose superhuman strength because you could do anything you wanted in the whole world with no trouble.

2. If you could eat one thing for the rest of your life what would it be?

BBQ ribs.

3. If you had a free plane ticket where would you go?

Florida.

4. Pepsi or Coke?

Coke

5. You have your own island to start up your own society what is the first rule you’d make?

Everyone would have to worship me in every way possible.

We then asked Darrell a few more questions about his interests.Darrell enjoys football, writing poetry and cooking. He plays playstation in his spare time and hates pets. The last song he listened to was Girls Like Beyonce by Drake.

Today we also decided that instead of arranging a meeting with our talent to film VTs of them in their own homes or locations we'd shoot our host in the green screen room acting out the principal girl and boy's answers. We thought that this would be a better idea as we can shoot these VTs much quicker and more efficiently than having to make arrangements with others. Also it will add to the overall comic effect of the show. 

Today we sat down and began to extend the script to allow for another couple to be made in the show. This will give us more content on which to be assessed and keep the show interesting as we show how the format can be mixed up with different genders involved in each role.