Nuthin but a muffin entertainment!

Ok so we have just finished our 7th production meeting at the Velo louge at Moorland road, Bath. Timed at 12 noon with Jessie, Chris, Nathan and myself.
Contributors we have found so far; Mark and Eleanor. They are two successful eye surgery stories and are both willing to be interviewed. The only problem is we need to travel far and wide to reach them!We also started our filming. Woop! we managed to get a good load of people to answer the question "what is your opinion on laser eye surgery?" in Moorland road. Out of about 12 people we only had one person who was camera shy. The rest had very interesting answers we can finally start putting together for our Doc. Good times.

We had;
Nathan - Camera man
Jessie - lead interviewer and sound recordist
Myself- Paper work and interviewer.

We also managed to get a good range of ages and opinions.So far our interview Schedule is;
Bath Optician interview- 14th April. Bath.Interview with Eleanor - 22nd April. LLanelli. Interview with Mark- 25th April. Bournemouth south end.

Im am currently doing the call sheet for the rest.Our next production meeting is next Tuesday. 31st March. 12 noon!

Our Documentary..

"Nothin but a muffin" productions brings you.. Many complications. I think this sentence best describes team purple's documentary on Laser eye surgery. We have split the group into what the four individual members are best at. Chris and Nathan on the technical side of the project. Jess being the production manager and myself the assistant- also doing research and what not. So far we have managed to research into private clinics around bath (and bristol if need be) However. Finding a contributor is beginning to be quite a challenge.

So far we have managed to find a guy called Mark, from Bournemouth. Who is willing to discuss his procedure in 2005, which went successfully. As for that we are still in a bit of a pickle with contributors. However as a team we've successfully got through the Pitch and have written a treatment for what we intend to include in our doc. This week is filming week so we can finally get things moving. I did also manage to find a couple of private clinics around bath, however not many that do laser eye surgery. We still think it might be a good idea to hold an interview with one of them anyway, to find out about it from a proffessional :)

Expo..!

On Thursday the 19th of Feb, we were all lucky enough to attend the broadcast video expo at earls court. I think our expectations were higher than the actual event, but dissapointment aside i did manage to find something that kept me from making my lunch spread into 3 hours, and pretending to understand many items and gadgets that i have to admit were far far over my head. It'll be no suprise when i mention the TriCaster! Even though the look on he audience faces didnt encourage me to listen to the lecture, I did and actually found some of it quite interesting..

The TriCaster is a video production system, used by many familiar names such as Fox, that can output to video, projector and the Internet. It can mix up to three live cameras with iVGA input from external computers. It can also has video and picture playback using any of the hundreds of 2D and 3D transitions. The TriCaster can also overlay graphics and text and even record the whole production to a hard-drive or stream it live.. Hard to put into words i know. Many of it is still a bit far-fetched for moi.

It is used to set up many virtual news studios. The technology allows you to change backgrounds (with registered users) and also camera angles with little movement of the equipment.

Just before the Christmas break, we all did individual presentations on one of the people we had interviewed over the first semester. I chose to do the life of a producer/director. Little was i to know it was A LOT of information to cram into a 2 minute speech. And i think we all know what im like with public speeches in general :S..
We all had to start with the same thing. So the start of my script was as follows;
Producer/director

"My name is Laura Carey and I’m going to discuss the role of a BBC producer. For my
Case study, I have chosen the BBC documentary on the Amazon, presented by Bruce
Parry and produced by Steve Robinson and Matt Brandon.

The producer for a programme like this will firstly begin to depict particular angles and
Decide what the content of the programme will be. They will then begin to research the
Particular subject, in this case the Amazon, and find out what the most interesting stories
Are."

I'll leave the rest up to the video. I'll just have to cringe and laugh at myself at this one. It wont be hard.