Studio - Preproduction

I just finished studio class this semester and it was one hell of a ride. We did two exercises: The Juggling Pug and our own show mine called ZOO York, before we did the real production. The name of this production is called Life| Exposed. I will post pics later. Life| Exposed interviews Ct 101 students with good documentaries, exposing their lives and the lives of their subjects to you.

I played many roles in the creation of this show but the greatest was that of Producer. The first and most important role of advice I can give a fellow or potential Producer is DO NOT PROCRASTINATE. Once you fall behind it is difficult to impossible to catch back up to where you need to be. To be a good producer, you must be able to control the scene while being a cool friendly person that people enjoy being with. Crack jokes every now and then, keep smiling, and mess with the women sometimes, but keep it professional. Also it is important that you always keep the talent feeling special. Also it is very important to get back ups, because someone is almost guaranteed to duck out on you at the last minute.

As script writer the hardest part is dedicating the time to crank out a polished script. You can start from any part at any time, but once you have certain things you had better be working on it. Those things are: total run time (TRT), atleast tentative talent, a title, and subject matter. It depends on the show you are doing. In Life | Exposed, I had to preinterview the guests, so I could structure some interesting questions. Start off with a generic question, then just start talking with them about their current life and their life at the time of filming, then what has changed between now and then. Don't worry about sensitive material. The talent will always tell you if they don't want to talk about a subject on the air, or they just won't tell you anything on it. Now the show opening and closing have to be made, you are scripting what the host will say. We then got the actual times for the videos of each of the talents and put them in. It is important to have the talent read the dialogue twice to make get an idea of how long that will take. Now you script the pitch to the talent and formulate the questions. Finally you calculate the show time based on the graphics, videos, and dialogue, then you split the time accordingly for each of the guests. Now you have the times for everything and a finished rough. Keep polishing