Stratcast "News, Arts and Culture Show" (NACS)

So what is "NACS"? Well at the start of the year we were given a brief to make a programme that would run to the Christmas holidays and that was to create a series of a News, Arts and Culture show. The clue is in the title, we had to create a show based around any news, arts and culture that went on around Stratford. To understand how news, arts and culture shows were made we looked at a few examples such as "The One Show"

The most generic conventions of these kind of shows were things like there would be around 1 to 2 presenters giving any news or updates around the region with maybe a few V.T's of the said subject to play afterwards. There would be interviews, in-studio activities and such. They would mainly be studio based with almost a lounge area for the presenters and their guests and the V.T's would be made almost anywhere depending on what the topic was. In terms of editing it wasn't majorly fast or crazy for effect, in the studio the shots weren't too complex but would mostly be mid shots of the presenters while they spoke and close-ups on individuals who spoke and the editing wasn't fast so each shot lasted a good few seconds before changing so to give the show a relaxed feel. It's purpose is to make you feel you're sitting down just having a discussion about a topic. 

That was therefore what we wanted to go for but of course we had to start somewhere and none of us really had any experience with using any of the equipment, let alone going ahead and planning and filming our own news, arts and culture show. It also didn't help we were thrown head first on the first week to start filming! Our tutor explained that it would be the best way to learn rather than spending ages learning the theory behind making a show. We needed experience. And that's certainly what we got!