Emanuel Leggett TV Production Blog

Evaluation This first term has been an eventful one, I've had a lot of personal issues that I've really struggled with and trying to keep up with my work, but it's been a good experience, to say the least. In this evaluation, I shall be discussing what went thoughts, what went well and what didn't in my pre-production, production and post-production. I really struggled with pre-production this time round, normally I'm on top of things and sort out location and actors really early. However, due to personal reason, my head just wasn't in the right place and I couldn't focus up on my work. I did eventually sorted myself out and soon got back onto the grind of sorting out my pre-production. I knew that I wanted to film in either an office or a flat. Rather than going out and spending money I didn't have, I would just film at the UCA student accommodation in Rochester. I found the location easiest as both of my Actors lived there so I knew they w...

Analysing a TV Series "The Inbetweeners" The Inbetweeners started way back in 2008 and lasted till 2010 having only 3 series. The story follows William McKenzie as he transfers to a new public school for his final years at the school. That's when he meets his 3 best friends Simon, Jay, and Neil. Altogether they embark on their final years before adulthood going through embarrassing house parties to trying to lose their virginities. The series was such a huge hit that in 2011 and 2014 they made 2 films getting the cast back together for the fans. William McKenzie Character: Will is the character we follow through all 3 series and both films he narrates throughout the show. As a character Will is different from the rest of his group, he's more mature. The reasoning for this is because he went to a private school before he met everyone. You can tell this by his intelligence and his comedic effect as he's very sarcastic. Simon Cooper...

Stew and punch Stew and Punch is basically about a couple that are throwing a house warming party just after they move house. "Alex" played by Marc Ryan-Jordan is challenged several times during the short to an arm wrestling match, however he loses every time. This bring a sense of his manhood down leading him to take a great amount of alcohol, which makes the night even more eventful than it should've been. Character: Alex Drinking from the punch. In the image we see Alex a simple character who's just moved into his new house. We can already see from the image that Alex likes a drink (alcohol). This is foreshadowing that something bad is going to result in him constantly drinking throughout the night. Another thing we notice about his character is that he hates being embarrassed and showed up by his friends. When this does happen he ends up losing it due to the alcohol and starting to fight people. Alex and Samantha. Another key character is Alex...

Editing workshop 3  In this session I learnt how to properly place my clips into Premiere. I was having a lot of trouble in the previous sessions because I've always used a DSLR and with that you would just put you're SD card into the computer and the clips would come up. However, with these new cameras thats not the case, you can only look at the clip in premiere and I was just getting confused constantly because I didn't know how I could see what clip is what.  Another thing that I also learnt about is the importance of the rolling tool. essentially what this tool does is if you had two different shots, but wanted to cut together smoothly you would use the rolling tool to try and find a similar position the actor is in so the cut wouldn't look tight. Using this tool also helped me understand the use of J-cuts and L-cut. This is when you have two or more people talking in a scene and it either cuts before they finish speaking and you see the reaction of the ot...

Screen Writer Research What you must think of when developing you're idea: When it comes to writing a script you first need to think about what you're going to write. You need to think about what you're going to write in a lot of depth, the reason for this is because you need to make the world you are writing believable. For the writer they only need to write enough to keep the audience hooked, however the writer must know all the rules and backgrounds of their story to keep it making sense. Another thing that the writer must think about is what story are they looking to write and how are they going to do it. A lot of stories are heavily influenced by other film/Tv shows, so if this was the case you need to think about what makes yours different compared to the original. What must be done is a lot of thinking about you're idea and develop your character before you write it. Make sure your characters a different, but interesting Finally, you need to explore th...

Visual Analysis Exercise  Sherlock S2:E3 “The Reichenbach Fall” What is Mise-en-Scene? Everything put into a scene .i.e lighting , setting, costume, props and the behaviour of the actors. I will be diving into a scene form “Sherlock” and looking into the Mise-en-Scene and analysing it to see why they’ve decided to use it and how it would affect the audience views. These are the three stills I got from this specific scene. The main setting in this scene is on top of Barts hospital in London and this is very weird place to have this scene. This scene seems like it should really be taking place in an underground hiding place, however its not. Using this rooftop is a really strange thing to do, but later in the scene both antagonist and protagonist talk about how they both fly with angels. Angels relate to death and people die in hospitals. This also foreshadows the death of Moriarty and Sherlock faking his own.  As they’re outside the lighting is looks...

Camera Workshop_04 - Out on Location On our 4th and final camera workshop for this term we was taken out to Vinters nature park next to the studios. The peruse of this camera workshops was to work in groups you probably wouldn't have worked with before and also to use the skills we've learnt in previous workshops to then use them outside. Filming outside is completely different to the indoors, one thing I did notice when we was filming outside was the constant shifting of the white balance and exposure. Due to it being a really sunny day the white balance kept shining from light to dark, this was because of the obstruction of the trees at the park. We needed to overcome this by timing our shots to the right timing. We was put into groups of 4 and given equipment to then have to make up anything we wanted to do. First thing our group decided to do was to find a location at the park before getting our equipment so we could recce to place to see if there are any dangers. ...

Camera Workshop_03 - 180 degree rule The 180 degree rule is the line at which you place two subjects on and the camera would be on a arc. The camera would not be allowed to pass this line otherwise it'll make the scene seem odd. Where you position the camera in a scene is where you would place the audience in the scene. Frame would have to people talking. One would be positions on screen left, the other on screen right. The one on screen left would always be looking towards screen right and vice versa. We watched a short clip from an old samurai movie and during the scene the actors switch sides, however we see them do this so it doesn't seem off putting. The reason for it not looking off putting is because we see them change sides, which in our eyes we process it better without us having to thing about it too much. You can cross the line if you use camera movement to show the audience, or if you want to confuse the audience and make them unsettled. A good ex...

Craig's Pathetic Freakout Craig's pathetic freakout is a short comedy created by Graham Parkes. The film is based around 2 friends who smoke weed together, however Craig is warned before that he can sometimes get really paranoid when smoking. He ignores his friends advice and decided to smoke the weed anyway. This leads to Craig believing he's in a short film so he starts to freak out. Over the course of the film he sees the behind the scene team coming in and in some cases the boom pole gets in his way and begins to have a panic attack as his friend says he can't see any of this happening. Character: Craig's stoner friend. There are only two main characters in this film, Craig and his friend. The friend is the one that can handle smoking weed and bring it up as they're at his house smoking. His character is very interesting as we see the world through Craig's eyes, this means we can see when he thinks his voice is out of sync or when the boom...

Analysing a short - Soft. In this blog I'm going to talk about the 4 main aspects of screen writing, which are: Character, goal, conflict, and change. This is because in my screenplay I must have these and if I analyse these main aspects then I can try and improve my own script. Characters  The Thug and the son's 1st confrontation. Soft has really 3 main characters, the dad, son and the main thug thats causing them all the trouble. At the beginning of the film it starts of with the thug beating up the son, however we don't realise that it's the son but we have suspicions that it is. So this sets up these two characters by having them in a tense situation, which immediately grabs the audiences attention. This is what you want when establishing your characters, as myself (audience) was caught in the mix straight away which left us wanting to know what happens next. On the other hand, with the Dad I felt that his introduction was boring. I noticed that he loo...

David Mitchell Wh o is he? David Mitchell is one of my favourite comedy writers at the moment I really love his work in Peep Show (a situation comedy). He's won a couple of BAFTA's for his male role in Peep Show which he co-writes with Robert Webb and the other BAFTA was for 'The Mitchell and Webb Look'.  His Previous work David Mitchell has had such a successful career so heres a list like on my other post of his work in time order. The Jack Doherty Show - TV Series - 1997 The Armstrong and Miller Show - TV Series - Wrote 7 episodes - 1999 Bruiser - TV Series - Wrote 6 episodes - 2000 Lee Evans: So What Now - TV Series - Wrote additional material for 1 episode - 2001 TV to Go - TV Series - 2001 Comedy Lab - TV Series - Wrote 1 episode - 2001 The Mitchell and Webb Situation - TV series - Wrote 6 episodes - 2001 Big Train - TV Series - Additional sketches - 2 episodes - 2002 Twisted Tales - TV  Series  - Wrote 1 episode - 2005 The Two F...