Mini Show!..

...As I said we had already started our research as a group individually, so before we started to put our own show together we did a few workshops with the cameras and the equipment which was very useful but also essential as we couldn't go into the studio not knowing what we were doing as we were using very expensive equipment and needed to know how to engage with it properly. I found this quite interesting because I had never worked in a real studio environment before and I was quite excited to be honest also! I really did think working with the technical side of the studio was going to be hard, but actually once you go over things a couple of times you actually get into the swing of things and I began to feel comfortable with the cameras, even though I am going to be presenting the show I knew if someone was off sick or couldn't make it for some reason I would be able to stand in for them. 

Next was starting the Mini Show, which I think was just to get us comfortable in our roles and used to being in front and behind the camera and also used to call times etc.. We had to create a short TV segment on how to make paper airplanes, although this seems quite basic it was really quite hard, I found it hard as the presenter as I had to know which camera angles to look at whilst speaking and concentrating on making the airplane. It was really all about multi-tasking and gaining new skills in the studio. Which I found very helpful. 

After we had had many workshops, on cross-shooting and shooting music etc, we decided to get into the nitty gritty of our show, this was the part were we got in contact with people who we thought would be good for our show. We had obviously sat down and discussed our ideas, we all quite a few ideas to put into the hat and most were really good, I really wanted to try and produce something with fashion as this is something I am also really passionate about however this is something which is done quite a lot on most lunchtime shows such as this morning and loose women, even if the whole show is not based on fashion they always have some element! Therefore we decided to go with sport, although this was the complete opposite end of the spectrum we decided it would work and yet we would give it a twist...

... You see all these shows which are mostly based on men's sporting teams, and women are not really mentioned much so we decided that we would have a sports show focusing mainly on women athletes, also mainly because this was also a big year for women in the Olympics so we thought it was really up to date. It just so happened that one of our group members new Natasha Jonas, the Olympic boxer and so we decided to set the show around boxing as well. We storyboarded our show planned out the set which was very basic with  a sporty feel, and planned our demonstration. Everything was going perfect and we were all set!!...