Studio Production: Production Meeting 1

Today i chaired the meeting and let the Promo and VT Teams know what they needed to begin working on. The VT team needed to wait until we finalised the initial topics but they could start work on the graffiti topic and see what sort of angle they wanted to take with it. The Promo team were given the task of bringing some new name ideas to the table and designing a logo. I gave them my brief that my ideas behind it were about a pointing hand but as its to do with with social media and technology it was mentioned about the possibility of using a speech bubble similar to that on an iPhone as it is very current and a way of communicating. I thought this was a good idea so i left it to the Promo team to look into a bit more.
Then we split into our small teams to discuss what topics we wanted to use - i mentioned that i had a graffiti artist on board so the graffiti topic should stay and the current angle i was looking at was is graffiti and art form or vandalism. I wanted to do a bit more research into this to make sure we were looking at the most current and relevant part of that topic and were not just rehashing up an age old debate. I decide to research this a lot more over the next few days. We mentioned the possibility that VT's for this topic could be an interview with our graffiti expert and Andre and Sei kai mentioned the possibility of speaking to london shops who allow graffiti on their store fronts and then people who have unwanted graffiti on their houses to get contrasting opinions.
The next topic we discussed was body image and self esteem. This was another topic from my pitch but despite having a potential guest we needed to really hone in on the angle we wanted. This was something that we couldn't decide on initially. We looked at the people in the public eye who are very image focus such as Alicia Douvall who has had a lot of plastic surgery and just featured on Celebrity big brother - The likely hood being she would still be in the papers and making headlines in march when our show is to air.
We also looked at:

• make up - the positives and negatives - does it hinder a girls confidence - how to men feel about it
• page 3's demise
• justin bieber photoshopped

Over the next few days the Production team will look more into these topics and try and get a clearer picture on what we want to do. 

Another topic we looked at was to do with gaming. I knew Andy was into gaming and one of my pitches VT ideas was a reaction video. Gaming reaction videos are pretty popular on youtube so i wanted to try and find a suitable game for this. Andy mentioned a game called hatred and we watched the Trailer. It is about a guy who mindlessly kills for no reason. It has an age rating of 18 which may prove to be a problem with our target audience but it seemed a good option. I decided to look into the game a bit further and do some research on age certifications and what can be shown on TV. The angle for this VT currently is violence and its presentation to young people through games. 

The final topic i mentioned was to do with voting and lowering the voting age. This is a topic teacher Helen mentioned and as i wanted to make sure we didn't pigeon hole the show and cover topics that were just light and breezy which insults your audience a bit for thinking they can't handle the serous stuff. It gave us the possibility for looking at things such as why do young people not vote also so this was relevant with the elections coming up. 

Mark then brought a really interesting idea to the table. He mentioned that another idea we could look at is the should you hit back debate to do with domestic violence. This was something that i thought was really relevant and something young people don't look into enough. This gave me the idea to potentially set up a VT where we have a man abusing a woman and a woman then abusing a man and see who reacts to the violence. This would help to instigate the debate about domestic violence. 

Currently i am thinking of using Grafitti, Domestic violence, gaming and body image.

We also discussed potential panelists and anchors. I said i would put out casting calls but we also brain stormed names of people we know who could be good.

I mentioned my 2 friends from work who are highly opinionated and controversial.

• Jordan (Panelist)
• Beth (Panelist)

The group suggested:

• Dave - Presenter (Babs)
• Jamie Terry - Presenter  (Danny)
• Art Student/ Tutor - Panelist
• Journalism Students- Panelist
•  Pro-Vote- Panelist/ Guest
•  Lee Tucker- Panelist (Charlie)
•  Natasha Bleck - Panelist (Kate)

We all agreed to speak to them ourselves and try and get them in for our auditions.

Stay safe,

Helen