Tallis TV
Types Of Brief
The Brief
The client Thomas Tallis School were set to relaunch its hit school community television show. I was given clear and coherent instructions on what i had to do.
The Brief: Relaunch Tallis TV with up to date content, focusing on current events and interests of the audience
Once i had reviewed previous episodes of the school community based show, i gathered a few questions to ask the client in order to successful create a proposal, these were: How long the episode would be? How many features would be included? How long i would have to create the episode? What the deadline was?
I then asked the client if i could create a progressive, documentary style piece based on the memories leavers of the school have. This would give me more time to essentially interview students around the school.
The Brief: Relaunch Tallis TV with up to date content, focusing on current events and interests of the audience
Once i had reviewed previous episodes of the school community based show, i gathered a few questions to ask the client in order to successful create a proposal, these were: How long the episode would be? How many features would be included? How long i would have to create the episode? What the deadline was?
I then asked the client if i could create a progressive, documentary style piece based on the memories leavers of the school have. This would give me more time to essentially interview students around the school.
Relaunched Tallis TV Episode |
Pitch |
Evaluation
On completion of the project, i was required to review my overall performance during the process, in terms of how well i did when managing my time. At the beginning of the project, we were given strict time guidelines and deadlines from the client. Unfortunately, due to the project managers incompetent organisation skills these instructions were not stressed coherently to members within the team. This meant tasks were inconsistently relayed, causing tasks to be completed at a very slow rate. Although this was a major downfall for the team, i managed to successfully organise my tasks in order of importance. I started off by completing the small tasks such as the paperwork, to ensure i had more time to focus on creating my feature Memories of Tallis. Personally i completed it to a very high standard, in terms of the cinematography and range of shots used. The story was also very engaging as it captured the audiences attention of being able to relate to the things said by the interviewees. The only problem i came across was subtitled, which i had never done before. Essentially i had to learn how to do it all myself.
I believe i was successful when using my leadership skills, in terms of the qualities i showed when we had to shoot our features in the studio. I felt that i urged my team mates enough to get the best out of them, taking a subtle approach, when speaking to another member of my team, this showed that i was interested and supportive of my fellow team mates capabilities and needs. For example, when i was shooting Lace's opening sequences, she felt slightly camera shy, which was unusual seen as she had previously studied Drama. Despite this minor setback, i took her aside and gave her encouragement and spoke to her in a friendly tone. This immediately made her more comfortable in front of camera and she completed the feature successfully.
In line with my leadership skills, i always kept other members interests in mind when speaking to them, in order to avoid confrontations which would interfere with the progress we would make as a team. I believe this helped very much as we completed roles and duties to our best possible abilities. However, the team manager didn't realise that speaking in a friendly and encouraging manner would effectively speed up the work rate of the whole team, which was slightly discouraging.
Meeting the Requirements wasn't necessarily easy. My intentions were to adhere to clients guidelines, one of the requirements was making sure the whole episode was subtitled for those with hearing impairments, it was very useful to have within the video as it meant everyone would understand it. On the other hand, it was time consuming and very boring which meant that i personally was slightly disinterested, also because i was new to subtitling in Final Cut Pro.
We were on track from the beginning but due to poor organisation our performance slipped towards the end. If our project manager had been more efficient at organising job roles tasks would have been completed in the allotted time scale, rather than 2 days late.
In future, i would most definitely take over as project manager as i possess the basics skills which would accommodate each member of the team. Most importantly organisation would be the key element in moving the team forward.
Our Client later gave us constructive feedback, he explained that he enjoyed the range of stories we used in the episode and length. Stating that the features brought back the history of Thomas Tallis and kept to the brief. Moreover our client was really impressed with the creative flair used, in terms of how technical the shots and editing were. Although he did say that with a little bit more time and freedom we could have produced better. Our client was very impressed with: the clips that show what show is up next, the presenter and host Lace's performance on camera, the style of the video. The things that our client mentioned we should improve were that the aspect logo of the Tallis TV ident logo were inconsistent, the soundtrack was too high which overpowered the presenter's introduction to the next features. The sports day feature was far too long and included too many unnecessary clips with shaky footage. We were finally told that rather than speeding through editing, we should look over each section with a critical eye in order to spot mistakes that can potentially be avoided.
I believe i was successful when using my leadership skills, in terms of the qualities i showed when we had to shoot our features in the studio. I felt that i urged my team mates enough to get the best out of them, taking a subtle approach, when speaking to another member of my team, this showed that i was interested and supportive of my fellow team mates capabilities and needs. For example, when i was shooting Lace's opening sequences, she felt slightly camera shy, which was unusual seen as she had previously studied Drama. Despite this minor setback, i took her aside and gave her encouragement and spoke to her in a friendly tone. This immediately made her more comfortable in front of camera and she completed the feature successfully.
In line with my leadership skills, i always kept other members interests in mind when speaking to them, in order to avoid confrontations which would interfere with the progress we would make as a team. I believe this helped very much as we completed roles and duties to our best possible abilities. However, the team manager didn't realise that speaking in a friendly and encouraging manner would effectively speed up the work rate of the whole team, which was slightly discouraging.
Meeting the Requirements wasn't necessarily easy. My intentions were to adhere to clients guidelines, one of the requirements was making sure the whole episode was subtitled for those with hearing impairments, it was very useful to have within the video as it meant everyone would understand it. On the other hand, it was time consuming and very boring which meant that i personally was slightly disinterested, also because i was new to subtitling in Final Cut Pro.
We were on track from the beginning but due to poor organisation our performance slipped towards the end. If our project manager had been more efficient at organising job roles tasks would have been completed in the allotted time scale, rather than 2 days late.
In future, i would most definitely take over as project manager as i possess the basics skills which would accommodate each member of the team. Most importantly organisation would be the key element in moving the team forward.
Our Client later gave us constructive feedback, he explained that he enjoyed the range of stories we used in the episode and length. Stating that the features brought back the history of Thomas Tallis and kept to the brief. Moreover our client was really impressed with the creative flair used, in terms of how technical the shots and editing were. Although he did say that with a little bit more time and freedom we could have produced better. Our client was very impressed with: the clips that show what show is up next, the presenter and host Lace's performance on camera, the style of the video. The things that our client mentioned we should improve were that the aspect logo of the Tallis TV ident logo were inconsistent, the soundtrack was too high which overpowered the presenter's introduction to the next features. The sports day feature was far too long and included too many unnecessary clips with shaky footage. We were finally told that rather than speeding through editing, we should look over each section with a critical eye in order to spot mistakes that can potentially be avoided.
Re-Designed 2012 Logo
In order for the Olympic Games to seem more appealing, we slightly re-designed the current 2012 logo to accommodate the interests of the younger generation.
Research Survey
i constructed a short questionnaire in order to gather the correct information on which to base our documentary on in terms of length, purpose etc.
we finally came to a conclusion that in order to keep target audience engaged, the documentary would have to be fairly short and interesting.
see image below for evidence of results.
we finally came to a conclusion that in order to keep target audience engaged, the documentary would have to be fairly short and interesting.
see image below for evidence of results.