Ideas

Ideas for my live show

Idea 1: Live Talk Show

The first idea I had for this project was to conduct a one-to-one live interview about someone's life. This idea is particularly inspired by ITV's Piers Morgan's Life Stories, where Piers Morgan conducts an interview with a different celebrity covering a variety of subjects within their life every week in front of a live studio audience. The multi-camera element of this show is that there are at least four cameras in the studio; one on the host, one on the celebrity and one on both the host and the celebrity. I was particularly inspired by how the cameras are used to cut to the host, the interviewee and the live studio audience. An important element of doing a live talk show would be that the interviewer would have to keep the audience interested by asking a variety of different questions. The advantage of shooting this type of live show using multiple cameras is because it would allow me to focus on the two central subjects; the celebrity and the host, however the disadvantage would be that you can't see the host's immediate reaction to the celebrity's answer to the question. The audience for Piers Morgan's Life Stories would largely be men and women aged 40 onwards who are living in the UK because a lot of the celebrities may only be known to people living in the UK and some of the subjects covered in the interviews are quite sensitive, hence the reason it is broadcast after 9pm and targeted towards an older audience.

Idea 2: Live panel/debate show (Daytime TV)

The second idea I had for this project was to have a live panel show where a group of four panellists debate over issues and current affairs. This idea was particularly inspired by ITV's Loose Women, where a group of four female panellists from the entertainment and journalism industry discuss issues such as politics, current affairs and celebrity gossip from a female perspective in front of a live studio audience. The multi-camera element of this show is that there is at least four cameras in the studio; two getting individual shots of panellists, one getting a shot of all the panellists and one getting a shot of the audience. I was particularly inspired by how the cameras are used to cut to different panellists and the live studio audience. The advantage of shooting this type of live show using multiple cameras is because it would allow me to focus on each panellist but the disadvantage would be that you can't necessarily see another panellist's immediate reaction. An important element of doing a live panel show would be that there is a variety of different people with different personalities on the panel to show different opinions on different subjects. The audience for Loose Women would largely be women aged between 30-60, living in the UK because they find it easy to relate to topics the panellists discuss and they are topics relevant to people living in the UK.

Idea 3: Live drama

The third idea I had for this project was to produce a live drama based around a plotline. This idea was particularly inspired by ITV's Coronation Street, which was broadcast live for the first five months of its existence from December 1960 until March 1961 and then three live specials were broadcast in December 2000, December 2010 and September 2015. The multi-camera element would be that in most scenes, for example, in one scene, there would be at least three cameras; one facing two characters and one facing each individual character. I was particularly inspired by how the cameras are used to cut to different shots of characters and scenes. The advantage of shooting this type of live show using multiple cameras is because it would allow me to focus on different characters at once however the disadvantage would be that you can't see another character's immediate reaction to something. An important element of creating a live drama is that each camera is synced to the same time code so that each shot is synchronised. The audience for Coronation Street would be a mixture of men and women aged 45+, living in the UK because a lot of the storylines are relevant to people living in the UK and an older audience is more likely to take the topics portrayed seriously.

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