Bring it on production diary

 What is bring it on?

Bring it on is an exhibition which presents to primary and secondary students the world of engineering, and for them to expand their knowledge on what it really is. A man named Andrew, who is an engineer had hired Ufilms to create skits and a livestream for him to present to these students on the 12th and 13th of October. We started this out by creating scripts fore these skits, one each, however I worked with Casey as there was too many of us. There skit we did was 'engineers are badly paid'. For this, we had to prove this statement wrong, so we had the puppet and the engineer speaking to each other about the fact that engineers can be paid a lot, you just have to stick at it and work hard.

Filming the skits

We filmed these skits one after the other in the green screen room. We did this on the 27th September. We had to have two actors, a girl and boy so the genders were evened out. We had Emie Smith as the interviewer/engineer and Marc as the puppet, we had to use them both for all of them so it was the same throughout. We used the green screen room because we are putting them in all different places in the editing to make it more interesting, such as warehouses. We have made it to fit the target audience as much as we could, so we didn't just want to make it something like speaking into a camera as that would be boring for a younger audience and therefore they wouldn't want to watch it or be interested. On set, we didn't have specific roles for each person, or the roles we usually have. There was different people doing different roles for each persons skit, runners, camera operators, on set photographers, lighting, and editors.

Editing the skits 

Editing the skits was done by Casey Weedall. This took around half an hour for each one. She put the green screen on each one, but of different places. Mine and Casey's was set in an engineering background, Freya's was set in a park, Joshes was set in an engineering warehouse, Baileys was a windmill site, and martins was in front of windmills. This gave a variety of places, to make sure it was left interesting for the target audience. We had a few problems during editing, as Andrew had a few immediate pointers for us to change, such as spelling mistakes, directions of heads during the conversation, and during martins, it accidentally promoted a different engineering company so that had to be changed. To solve this, we had to have a team meeting with all of the second years about how we were going to fix these mistakes. We decided that we were going to rewrite the script for Martins and then refilm it. This was done by myself, Casey, Freya and Josh. For Baileys, we also did a rewrite which was done by him, and we are also re filming that. We managed to get everything re filmed and edited on time so it was all okay.

Filming day 

We all went to Sunderland on the Tuesday to get all of the equipment set up for the next two days and made sure it was all working. Things such as the green screen, cameras, lights, laptops, and everything for the livestream including the live editing station where Freya would be sat. The next day was filming day one. We all went back to Sunderland on the train and walked to the event. The roles for the next day were Cassey as the editor, Josh and Martin as camera operators, me and Bailey as floor managers, and Freya as the live editor. When we got there, everything was already set up so it was a lot easier and faster to get going. Me and Josh were in a team with Callum as our Actor, and Bailey and Martin were in a group with their actor as Emie. Our job for this day was too go around each engineering stall and film interviews for them all for the livestream and the bring it on website. Callum and Emie were the interviewers as they are the actors and Josh and Martin filmed it and me and Bailey were in charge of lights. We got split to do half each throughout the two days. We interviewed the Mayor of Sunderland as well which was unexpected and we didn't have a script prepared for that so Callum had to wing it throughout that one. At 1pm was the livestream so we all had to stay out of the room and do some more filming so it was quiet in there. This was what Freya was live editing. The second day of filming was very similar and we were doing all of the same things, but instead there was secondary children there instead of primary. At the beginning of the day we had a team meeting about things we could have done better the day before and made sure we kept them in mind for this day. We had to interview some schools throughout this as well as stalls of engineers. After we had done this, we just had to do some general footage throughout the event. There was then the same livestream again. We then just packed everything up and that was the end of Bring It On.