This is the first draft of the writing we are putting onto the article, it was written by Craig.
Ghost Nutters
The Ghost Nutter’s says that the key to being a good ghost Nutter is being fearless! Do you have ghosts … who ya gunna call? Don’t be fooled by the un-intelligent approach and lack of scientific terms used, the Ghost Nutters are whole nut! They say “ We’ll nut it” TV show presenter Craig Wassell’s and celebrity medium Fiona Allen are more used to looking pretty and play up to their media image but they really seem to have stepped outside the box as they have defiantly got their hands dirty. Former models (Fiona and Craig) have really shocked their fans by stepping up to the challenge but the poor acting is more humorous then serious. However the genuinely terrifying parts of the show are more then entertaining. Also in the show Tom Jessop (camera man) and Steph Bowen as the historian. Both the characters have a degree in the specified field. (Both of them more disadvantaged by the celebrity helpers then actually helped so this might come in handy)! Fiona Allen is after VD! The former model come medium says the main objective is Visual Data, and by the looks of things she does attract “orbs” how she did it is beyond us but as she would say it is flying upwards! We are simply shocked by her spiritual capabilities as her out of breath presentational skills are talking to the audience skills obviously need some work! But we think that this is what makes her so lovable we are massive fans of Fee Fee’s over here at TV Goss. Craig Wassell who first found fame back in 2001 by reality TV show dream boy band’s has become the most successful member of the winning band who split just under a year after the show had finished. After a flop solo career he became the new face of top shop alongside celeb pal Kate Moss. We love that he has made yet another career change and turned into a Ghost Nutter (instead of your everyday Nutter). The lack of screen time is disappointing in the pilot episode as celeb Pal Fiona seams to be hogging the spot light. However I think we do smell the start of a national treasure? The location isn’t as derelict as we had originally hoped. We did expect a far worse conditions however the location is genuinely haunted according to local myth and is a great location (for a first episode)! We are hoping for more gunk and classical slapstick situations for our nation’s new super hero ghost hunters and we have been reassured by the shows producers that there’s are more yet to come. We normally would ask the celebrities to stick to their day jobs but after watching this we where just left wanting more! Good job Craig and Fiona and the rest of the team!
Friday, 15 January 2010
Article
Research (Kris)
http://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/tft/client/user373/
This is a link to some information about Kris (who is an award-winning director), who we asked for filming advice before we started filming. As you can see from our interview in the video below, he gave us some helpful tips on engaging the audience, etc.
Health & Safety
Everyone in the media industry has to complete a health and safety record every time a bit of filming etc happens.
Our health & safety for the Old Queens Head is -
We had to analyse all the possible risks that could come of filming both in and outside the pub both in the day and at night. We could also look at the possible risks whilst traveling to the pub, going home and just general things we needed to be aware of during the whole day.
Also as part of health and safety were fire hazards. We had to know where the fire escape routes where and the quickest routes out of the pub. Also when we were walking around the room we took notes of where the fire extinguishers where. We all carried mobile phones with us so that in case of an emergency we could ring outside people.
Evaluation Questions
As part of an evaluation we are going to answer the following questions.
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?
4. How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research,planning and evaluation stages?
Thursday, 14 January 2010
Double Page Spread
As another ancillary task we had to complete a double page spread for a TV listings magazine. We came up with the title for the article as 'New kids on the shock!' This connotes the term 'New kids on the block' with a play on words oriented with ghosts we came up with shock, we also used new kids on the block as the programme is fairly new and all the cast are young.
Monday, 11 January 2010
Poster
Here is my idea, i created this on photoshop and based it on the idea of the 'Trucking hell' poster. I used the font Tolkien as i think that it fits the genre of the clip well and that it looks good with the pictures together. I copied the LivingTV logo, and used Ariel text for this. I used a blur technique for the whole image.
YouTube
Thursday, 7 January 2010
More Audience Feedback
To get even more audience feedback from a wider audience other than just the media group we are going to put our video on social networking site Facebook and also on YouTube and see what other people think to it, hopefully they will give us lots of positive feedback and plenty of area's in which they believe the video can be improved.
The links for the video is;
YouTube-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5heQKoCHsg
Facebook-
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#/video/video.php?v=236689663169