Flo's Weekly Wrap Up!
I was so exited for this week since I want to become a film director so I found this week extremely useful!
Monday: The BBC came in today to speak to us about how to pitch potential news investigations and how the process looks like, I loved everyone’s pitches they were all so inspiring. So much work has to go into pitching a story and an idea. Vinnie Shergill’s story was so inspiring for me since she worked her way up from the bottom and is a producer on strictly come dancing and also won a BAFTA. I asked her a question which was if she had any tips for a young aspiring film director trying to break into the industry she told me to not give up which gave me a lot of hope now and in the future.
Tuesday: Today warner media came in which was so sick! We saw the set of the Repair Shop, It was really good to learn about the different cameras that Chandler Hollbone was showing us he showed us the Sony FX 9 camera which the repair shop uses and he talked about the different lenses there are on the cameras they used which was an 18-55mm lens (wide lens) and a 100mm macro lens. He talked about the transmitter which gets received by the camera, so they have a crisp audio. They also talked about the different type of shots that are used which further broadened my knowledge about camera shots. Food Unwrapped came in, we were put into breakout rooms and had to come up with a food that they could do an episode on so our team came up with the sprinkle cake and the history of it as we thought it was very nostalgic and reminded us of bake sales. I also asked the same question about if they had any tips for young aspiring film directors and they said the same thing which was to start at the bottom. Which now I know I need to find a job as a runner ASAP!
Wednesday: Today Matty Groves came in to chat to us about documentary making which I loved so much, he showed us a bunch of amazing short documentary films which were really inspiring. He took us though how to make a good documentary and what makes a good documentary. I wouldn’t have had this opportunity before, so I was really grateful for this session. We’ve been given a task to shoot our own short documentary on a treasured item we feel attached to. I loved hearing about everyone’s item and how it was so personal to them. I love watching documentaries, so this session was so helpful to me.
Thursday; Today UKTV came to speak to us about the neuroscience when making advertisements which I had no idea about, this was so interesting to learn about since I had no idea. We got set a task in breakout rooms to create a comedy channel our group did a spin-off of adult swim which was really fun designing the cereal box we had Dave Chappelle and Eric Andre presenting our show and our target audience was young adults with a dark sense of humour since we found there was a gap in the market for that at the moment we wanted a controversial show. We then had to pitch this idea to a mock-up of dragons den which was really fun and pressuring since we had a limited amount of time, this was good practice because it showed me how fast paced the industry is.
Friday; Channel 4 came in today which was so so fun! I love this channel so much since they always have such good content. I loved how they said they are built on taking risks, they showed us a really cool video of a montage of complaints they got which was so on point and really funny. I never knew that they don’t actually produce their own shows, it’s all commissioned. They spoke about the internships they do which I was really thinking about doing since they had one on production training and hands on deck with working with people and a camera which really interested me. I think Channel 4 really stood out for me compared to the other channels since their programmes intrigue me.
- FLO