A big part of my time has been spent working on a television show, using the brand new studio in my university building. The project started a while back in September, where I was put into a group with Josie Webster, Emma Moreton, Pete Edwardson, Michael Shiells and Molly Dale.
We were given roles for the project and I volunteered as a Director. I chose this role because I am interested in a creative leading role in production and I had experience on a live shoot as a producer and floor manager. I did not enjoy those roles as I was too chaotic for an organised roles.
Things started off well, especially as we thought of a show from the start, Dark Side of the Noon. The show that looks into the world of the weird and wonderful. So this theme took us down the road into finding guests that relate to that world.
After a few weeks of practice shoots and training, where we each got a taste of our role, we pitched our idea to the lecturers. They loved the idea and gave us some advice into finding some guests.
We had some trouble into that field, as a lot of people in the weird and wonderful world were quite shy, and did not want to appear on camera. Emma however, found a pretty good guest, Pheobe Kelly, who was a local psychic and really wanted to help us out. So we interviewed her, got a sense of her story and were genially ready to go, when she had to cancel a week before the shoot.
We panicked. We went straight to our laptops and searched everywhere and anywhere. I didn't care who I asked, as long as they were a psychic of some sort. Still after two days of panic and searching, I got a phone call from Phil the medium, who said he was interested and would love to do it.
So after a brief meeting in Starbucks, we went to the shoot the next day and filmed the interview and demonstration, which was Phil giving Michael a reading. It went well, we rehearsed endlessly and got it recorded and done in one shoot. Afterwards I was quite relieved, as the hard part was over.
The next week was about making the title sequence and preparing for the music item for our show, which was to film TJ & Murphy perform their new song. I really enjoyed that shoot, even though I went a little crazy with the shooting script, but I am always ambitious, which I fell is one of my good qualities. I was really proud of the look and vibe of the shoot, it was smooth, gorgeous and really relaxing. I felt that we all pulled our best performances in that shoot and I think it shows in the final product.
So now its just a matter of editing all the footage together to create a short television show. I can't wait to see it and see what has been months of work finished. Still not all my work has been practical, I have been doing battle with one essay.
