Golden Oldies

Golden Oldies 

With the pitches being done and the chosen charity being ‘Golden Oldies’ the next step was to get assigned roles from the producer. With everyone in the class having specific job interests I was quite enthusiastic to want to either be the vision mixer which I had done before and also watched a pro in action doing it or to try being a floor manager as when working on cameras and generally on the studio floor I had always wondered what it would be like to be someone in that position. When on the group chat, I put myself forward for both these jobs, and of course with a few people wanting to be the vision mixer with me offering another role I got the position of the floor manager.

What is a floor manager?

‘The floor manager is responsible both for the safe running of the floor and for ensuring that the studio is ready to rehearse and record on time. Once the studio is in rehearsal, the floor manager becomes responsible for the overall state of the studio.’- Cue and Cut

With being given this job I am really excited to see what I will have to do as this and to also have a big part to play within the production. Meeting in our lecture just before we broke up for Easter, it was clear to me that I didn’t have a big role in being within a pre production as I am more active on the day of the production, keeping everything to time and making sure everything is running smoothly. However, in this session I sat with the crew that would be on the floor for example the camera operators and sound on the floor and we went through where the cameras would be placed and what the layout of the studio would be. With this I also talked to the researchers to find out from them who exactly would be in the studio so that I can research a bit into them as they will be the people that I will be interacting with. Which lead me to talk to the director, who talked to me about the possible time frames of the show, so I would know what to do with having to stick to what needed to be done in a certain time frame.

One thing I am weary of is the fact that I haven’t experienced this job role before and with that I am nervous about wanting to act professional, so in order to prepare me for this job I am going to research and read into what makes an effective floor manager, so that when it come to the day of rehearsing and recording the show, I know what my job entails and what I have to do to ensure everybody’s safety and also learn how to stick to the timings correctly. However, I feel like our class is very committed and all of us want to make a good show and therefore will all work together in order to make a great show.

Samaritans Pitch

Pitch- Samaritans

For our final project, we are producing a charity live show and for that we have to come up with the charity to set this show on. In doing so we were set into groups of 3 to come up with a charity to pitch to the rest of the class. in my group we discussed many different charities to of those caring for animals to helping people in need. One of our team member Ross, was adamant that we focus on the charity ‘Samaritans’ as it was a well known local charity in Bath that helps people who need someone to talk to about their issues or worries. As a group we all agreed that this was a really good and a solid idea to go with.

Following our decision, we had a week to put together a 5-minute pitch. During that week we had made a google doc with each of us in the group adding our ideas to the pitch. On the Wednesday we all met up to go through and time the pitch and also put together the order in which we would all be speaking. Also in this meet up we went along and added a bit more information as this was the first time we met as a group and doing this made a big difference as there were all individual bits of information we all thought would be effective in the pitch. One of these being a storyboard, so one of the guys in the group drew out a storyboard for the insert we would want to create for the charity, this would be passed around for the audience to see when the pitch would be going on so they get a clear idea of what the insert would look like. With our pitch we figured that having a PowerPoint was a bit cliché so instead we found a promotional video that Samaritans had already made just to show what they do from the charity themselves.

When it came to the day of the pitch, our group where the second group to show our charity pitch. Once the first pitch had finished, the third member of our group was no where to be seen as we were setting up he luckily turned up just in time, with his delay I became more nervous about pitching. As the pitch started everything we had planned ran smoothly, nothing went wrong, and we managed to just fit in the time limit. However, when it came to the questions there was a few which our group couldn’t answer as we hadn’t looked fully in depth about the charity. That area was where our pitching went a little downhill, not knowing some of the answers the audience wanted.

This was the script from our pitch

Although our pitch didn’t win for our class project, I feel like the pitch we came up with was loaded with information about the charity and also what we could include in the insert to make something that shows off what the charity Is trying to promote.