George Wing Television Blog

Chosen Idea After a lot of brainstorming, and ideas that fell through, as a group we finally went with the idea of filming our own adaptation of 'The Wrong Mans'. Originally we were going to film a short documentary on what its like to be s studio producer and how it is to work in a television studio environment. Jack had a contact as head honcho at ITN but unfortunately it fell through as she wasn't comfortable being in front of a camera. As a group, we decided that we would re-create in our own style two scenes from BBC Comedy/drama series 'The Wrong Mans'. In order to be show creativity this we chose some quote dialogue heavy scenes. The two scenes we eventually chose were very different form each other. One is more relaxed and comedic, the other more intense but funny at the same time. The scenes chosen hold humour and intensity with a well written plot/storyline. This will be very creatively challenging and it will be a difficult job trying to improve in ou...

"A test shoot is exactly what it sounds like – you experiment with filming your project" (Dusted, 2018) When deciding on how we were going to shoot this re-make of 'The Wrong Man's wanted to know what equipment we would use, and how we would apply it. In this little test shoot Jack wanted to experiment with the Fig Rig. For our shoot, we wanted to make sure we got the right camera that would get the coverage we needed and be of the best possible quality. After using the Panasonic 4K cameras previously in other projects, we knew the Camera quality was great with the correct lighting setup and correct camera settings. We were debating on using a DSLR after myself and Jack helped out on a third year shoot 'Bobbie and Clive' where they used a DSLR as their main camera and had multiple outdoor shoots. In third year I would like to experiment with both cameras to see the other possibilities. With the Panasonic cameras we would also have OIS (Optical Image Stab...

Where is my money? - The Wrong Mans: Episode 2 This scene will be filmed at night, where we will be using three LED Lighting sets to create this cold and dark atmosphere. Our location for this will be The Maidstone Studios Car Park. As director I took Jim Fields concept of good lighting but wanted to play around with this batman look. Lighting can be very telling of a scene and I would really like to show color, something to Jims intentions has lacked. He wanted everything to be grey in color which was to show that the two characters are boring office workers. However, I want to bring something different to this to show whats happening is genuinely exciting and take them away from this ‘mundane look’.  As research I came across this video by  cinicom.net  who show various lighting hacks: The Hacker  Two Colours Something not used in the show but very stylistic to it.  Lighting will be key to this scene.The scene will...

The final show was a success overall, and I found this whole process to be exhausting but also very beneficial and has left me with a great sense of achievement not just for myself but also my peers who have worked extremely hard as a team in pulling together a studio production; something very challenging when we've had such little experience and training. We were able to learn our specific roles and got to test them out for our own live studio production, something that is very rare for our age group and experience. What could I develop? From research to rehearsals this project has been challenging but enjoyable. If I was to do this unit again I wold consider trying out other roles or at least being able to have more experience in them so I could really benefit from another skill. Something I wish I could get more experience in would be sound. I haven't had much studio experience in this and feel our workshops could've gone more in depth as when practicing in o...

“Directors tell their stories with images and it is their intention to manipulate the emotions of the audience”  -(Frost, J 2009: pg.1).  My first role was director of VT's for 'Steal The Style' and there are may routs I could take with this especially in terms of utilising my own style. Upon receiving our roles, we split into our groups and immediately began coming up with ideas for the VT's. As soon as I heard the eras covered for 'Old to New' I began brainstorming ideas. I also began independently testing some of those ideas to see how well they would fit the piece but also how possible they are to shoot and edit. My big inspiration for the shooting/edit style was 'The Grand Tour' and 'Top Gear'. Thus, a direction/editing style I am really inspired by is that of Amazon Primes’s ‘The Grand Tour’. The way its filmed and edited is nothing short of genius They use quick cuts for a modernistic look. They use a style called 'Outils ...

My Studio Based Factual Programme is Have I Got News For You.  The show is based on the week's news, whats been happening socially and politically. As a concept this show was an inspiration to my regional idea that me and Jack pitched 'Politically Incorrect'. The series is fronted by guest hosts and features two regular team captains, Paul Merton and Ian Hislop. Each week the show invites two guests to cast a cynical eye over the week's news, resulting in a fast flow of anarchic, spontaneous and hugely entertaining wit and humour., mocking whats going on currently. Whilst this is comedy yin a news format, it is sill factual, studio based entertainment. Guests typically represent the world of politics, comedy, show-business and journalism, and are often themselves particularly newsworthy participants. The final touches of 'Have I Got News For You' are put together only hours before recording, allowing guests to comment on the late-breaking news stories...

The Jeremy Kyle Show Jeremy Kyle is a UK talk show that is aired on ITV during the day.  It is a multi-camera studio production where people publicise there personal lives to Jeremy, who will analyse the situation and act upon it based on his 'professional' opinion. An episode I looked at was 'Woman Regrets Being Reunited With Her Biological Mother' where a women previously met her biological mother who who had her taken away from social services for 'poor parenting' when she was younger. When the daughter met with her years later and they didn't get on very well and she's debating on giving her another chance at getting along and 'patching things up'. Though it may sound strange it actually becomes very intriguing and dramatic' as Kyle involves himself in the situation and takes sides. The show also has a live audience which I feel provokes even more of a response from the people sat there feuding and being interrogated.  The reaction ...

The Grand Tour is an Amazon Prime Original show, accessible online which is where a lot of television is headed these days with the likes of Amazon Prime, Netflix etc. This show has inspired much of my own ideas and work, more so than its arguable predecessor 'Top Gear' (which is still running on BBC). The show has now found its feet I feel now we're into the second series. I truly love its original set design.  Something else I really like about the Grand Tour is the way its filmed. The way its filmed and edited is nothing short of captivating. They use quick cuts for a modernistic look. They use a style called 'Outils Wolf' which is a style adopted in similar shows like 'Top Gear'.  So it will go from a normal speed pan to quick speed b-roll and back to a normal speed shot.  I decided to give this style a go myself to help inspire my directing of VT's. Its a style I would like to test myself so I used some footage from a client project: ...

The only previous issue I had with this camera was its complicated menu which was at first quite intimidating. However, having played around with it a bit more and watched some tutorials online, I think its something I could get use to and is always going to b an issue when using a different camera. I also don't like that you can't change the lens's on the camera so you're limited on what sort of look you can get. The look that comes stock however is gorgeous, and I really look forward to filming with it. With the built in stabilisation it should look really cool again. In my research into the art of cinematography I stumbled along Danny Cohen, an Oscar and Bafta nominated cinematographer who has worked on films like 'The King's Speech.' He said his job is to help the director realise what is in is head by putting it on screen. I am the director and cinematographer so I can hopefully recreate exactly what I want when filming. He says: "The cinemato...

During todays workshop we successfully managed to have around 5 full run-throughs of the show. For the morning half we were very rough but as we worked on it throughout the day we soon picked up on it. We had almost everything we would have in the live show including the actual presenters, models, and had some very useful stand-ins. The reason the first run through was so rough was because of a multitude of factors. The first being that we hadn't had a rehearsal in about three weeks, so much of what we learned previously had been forgotten in terms of staging. I was fortunate in that I wrote most of my camera movements in the script. However, as the show is being perfected many of these moves changed. Del sat us down as a group and gave his feedback. This was where we spoke as a group to work out some of the issues we were having. We went through some problems as a group (like unsteady cameras) and then went again to rehearse hopefully taking the feedback on board. I ...