We decided to pick the introduction with the presenters walking down the catwalk and also the Steals of the Season section (as this is the longest and possibly most complex part of our show.)
Mine and Melissa's job as the producers was to script this part of the show before handing it to the director who could then block out the movement of the presenters and also the movement of the cameras.
We decided to write this together even though this section is in my half of the show - the other sections are not fully developed yet which would make it too difficult for Melissa to write a script for one of the other sections. We started out by writing an audio visual script as this is what we are used to writing - we will use this for the mock production and then work to develop it into a studio script using the correct format.
As neither myself nor Mel had written a studio script before, I had a look at an existing studio script for the game show "Was It Something I Said?". This helped to give me a better understanding of what a studio script should include, what the layout should be like and what language / terminology should be used.
Some terminology from the script:
GFX: Graphics
SEQ: Sequence
APP: Applause
Format of the script:
The actual script / dialogue is written on the right hand side along with the stage directions and sound, whilst the shot number, camera number and visuals / camera shots are detailed on the left hand side. The script also shows that not everything needs to be scripted e.g. [PANEL DISCUSS QUOTE] - as this is something that will be ad libbed whilst recording. This means that in our studio script, for segments such as the interviews, the interviewee's answers should be written in a similar way e.g. [GUEST ANSWERS QUESTION] as this will be ad libbed.
Filming the Mock Production
We filmed the mock production with 3 cameras. We used lecture room 2 and set this up in a similar way to the set design we planned with Del - we had a catwalk area on the right hand side and a soft seated area on the left hand side.
George, the director, blocked out the directions for the presenters and the cameras based on the script we had written. The team then used this blocking to map out how this section of the script works.
The edited mock up:
What I have learnt from doing the mock up:
- The mock up enabled us to see how the script works when put into action - sometimes when scripting dialogue it can look good on paper but not pan out when put into action
- Instead of getting the presenters to ad lib a lot of information, we will script the fashion information and just allow them to ad lib their opinions / reactions to the trends instead.
- It works well to have the camera pan whilst the presenter walks over to the catwalk to describe the trend - in the actual production this will be done with one smooth camera move rather than cutting between cameras.
- Having more cameras for the production will allow us to get a wider variety of shots of the model on the catwalk - we were limited in the number of cameras for this mock up.
- It works well to have the presenters sitting on different sofas either side of where the plasma would be - looks more natural and conversational than having them on the same sofa.
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