Evaluation
Recently we organised and recorded the staff awards turning it from a boring routined gathering to a lively Tv styled celebration for our working for a client project. In this case a woman called Pat Squires (The vice Principal) was our client asking for us to record the college Staff award ceremony. This gave us an opportunity to change things up a bit in order to make the staff awards more interesting for everyone and also for some of us to show off our media and organization skills while allowing others in the class to build upon them.
The first thing we did before we started planning was research. I personally watch a few award show from Tv soap opera awards to music awards to familiarise my self with how award shows generally work. I also wanted to check out the shots that were coming from the cameras and the visual mixing that was happening in order to co-ordinate all the cameras.
Before the actual show day we had to arrange meetings with certain teachers and students to interview them in relation to the teachers who won an award. During the interviewing process I chose to record sound with a boom mic which wasn't pleasant as my arms would often get achy and tired. That whole process wasn't easy as we weren't in all week and the person with the Classes email address often came to college late or didn't come in at all at times which slowed us down a lot. Despite the flaws in our group we managed to record the interviews with most of the people we needed and had enough footage for the class editor to work with.
After the interviewing process we had to prepare for the live show. When it came to picking job roles I offered to be a hand held camera man which I eventually got. My next task was to work out where I would be on the actual day and what my camera would be focused on for the majority of the show. I was then later on told it would be best for me to focus on the award winners when they went to get their awards.
On the day of the show we were delayed a bit because of some technical difficulties that our class had no control over so we left it to the technicians to handle it. After 15 minutes of waiting, we begun the show. Things went well and although not everything was perfect, only one mistake was noticed by the audience which wasn't bad for our first show.
During the planning and recording process there were people putting a lot of effort in to the project but also a few people who didn't and also we missed 2 interviews due to the lac of concentration we all suffered for the layed back atmosphere created from the ones who weren't really focused. I Think things would have gone better over all if everyone dedicated them self's to the staff award show.
Over all I would say our strengths was the pre recorded video inserts and our intro be cause we were able to capture everyone's attention. Also the fact that we only made one visible mistake was also good providing our coms stopped working. The best thing about the award show is that everyone left happy and ready for the after celebration and also the client gave us good feed back as soon as the show finished which was a very good sign of success.
Notes from what Pat/the client had to say about the show
- The opening ident gave the audience confidents for the rest of the show
- There was a good atmosphere
- It was slightly formal with a bit of humor which was good
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