Multi-Camera Production

T.S.T  Insert Analysis

 In order to make the T.S.T live show run as professionally as possible we had to create short inserts to incorporate within the show. In groups of four we brainstormed some ideas that we felt would captured the attention of our audience and make them enjoy our show. Many of my team mates went for educational things that fit in line of the colleges themes and values.

Thinking outside the box, those in my team and I choose to do something a little more spontaneous and light hearted. We decided to recreate a television show entitled ‘Name That Tune’ which was a popular show that ran from 1952-1985.

Using the same name and similar concept we went about producing our insert.

We choose familiar and current song with some variations from our music devices e.g phones, iPods, MP3 players.  The aim of the game was that the participants had ten seconds to listen to a random juncture of a song chosen for them and identify the song that was playing correctly. The entire insert had an overall running time of two minutes which stuck to the brief received at the beginning of the unit.

The pre-production stage of our inserts making was fairly uncomplicated. However, the sound equipments let us down. As at some points of the filming stage, it randomly stopped working, so the audio of the transition between different participants and songs were inconsistent and therefore made the footage hard to hear and muffled. After having rectified that problem, we were unluckily braced with another. The edited footage that we had saved had been deleted thus making us restart the process again. Second time round, the filming process was tedious. Reluctantly, we finished it.

Feeling content and excited about the work we produce and how the audience would react to it we proceeded to setting up unto the tricaster ready for the live show. Unfortunately the format of the insert wasn’t compatible with that of the tricaster so therefore couldn’t have been put on. This was a technical error which could have been fixed if the process was done considerable before the live show day.

In conclusion, I enjoyed the making of our insert and think of it a great shame that we didn’t get to show it. My group and I worked well together in producing it. In future, I would recommend a back up of our work so if one copy was to get lost it wouldn’t set us back as much as it did this time round.