As Live Production: Pitch Development 19/1/18

As Live Production: Pitch Development 19/1/18

Today I continued to develop our pitch further adding more slides to our presentation and preparing important plans for how our show will be broken down.

The first thing I did was decide on our VT's, I couldn't come up with all the ideas myself but Danny wasn't in today to help, fortunately I was able to message him to get his opinions. 

"The term VT is used to refer to all video, whether it's on tape or digital".(BBC, 2008)

For our brief we were required to have 4 VT's not including opening and closing credits. They had to be between 1 and 2 minuets in length so we had to allow for this when planning our schedule/running order. Using some basic maths i was able to plan out an initial running order for our proposed show that gave details about how long each section and VT would last, as well as giving a brief description of each. This can be seen bellow. 

Ideally we would have a VT to introduce each of our guests and some of the work they have done for their respective youth councils or districts.

We would have a VT to represent the 2 major parties right now (Conservative and Labour), in which we aim to speak to a small local representative from each of the parties hearing about why young people should be interested in their work/policies. 

For our final VT we provided two options. Danny suggested that we should try and obtain some celebrity opinions on politics or relative topics so that our target audience could have a recognizable figure who could gain their attention and inform them.

However we have some concerns about how easy this archive footage will be to obtain, so our backup idea is to have a VT with an external presenter running through some current affairs/events that affect our young audience Business insider explains that in order to maintain attention spans and inform a young audience you need to "communicate the gist of your message quickly".(Insider, 2014) So our VS would have to be fast paced and energetic to maintain attention and serve as a replacement or our quick fire round.

With Danny's help I also made sure our show had to clear halves as the brief asked for. The first half specifically focused on politics, we would hope to inform our audience and chat to our guests to get their thoughts on the topic, find out what they know and what they would like to know. There would be space for some audience interaction before a short break.

In the second half we would become more generalized, discussing current affairs with our guests and to ensure we kept audience attention we would have an entire segment dedicated to taking questions from our studio audience. Bellow is our initial running order that Danny and I have agreed on and think works well.

On Screen Stuff	Timing
Opening Sequence	1 Min
Introduction + 1 VT	3 Min
ROUND 1 + 2 VTs	10 Min
INTERMISSION	INTERMISSION
Introduction + VT	2 Min
ROUND 2	7 Min
Open Mic	5 Min
Closing Thoughts And Credits	2 Min

 

Section	Description
Opening	Opening theme/credits play
INTRO	Presenter walks onto the set, introduces himself and the show then presents the VT guest introduction
VT no1	Guest introducing themselves to the audience via VT
SEGMENT 1	Get to know your politics. In this segment we will be talking to our guests to establish their base knowledge on politics, as well as gauging their reactions to a the views of the 2 leading political parties.
VT no2	VT explaining the views of the Conservative party (read by either a presenter or a party representative).
VT no3	VT explaining the views of the Labour party (read by either a presenter or a party representative)
End of pt 1	Presenter leads show to a break
INTRO 2	Presenter intros next segment and next vt
VT no4	A collection of celebrity political views (e.g Russell Brand) A montage of current affairs news clips
ROUND 2	The presenter and guest talk about current affairs with occasional input from the audience
OPEN MIC	The audience ask burning questions to the presenter and guests
CLOSING	Presenter concludes the show.

Bibliography

BBC, 2008. Glossary of common media terms. [Online]
Available at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/school_report/4791411.stm
[Accessed 15 January 2017].

Insider, B., 2014. 7 excellent ways to start a presentation and capture your audience's attention. [Online]
Available at: http://business.financialpost.com/business-insider/7-excellent-ways-to-start-a-presentation-and-capture-your-audiences-attention
[Accessed 19 January 2017].