Research and preparation

As a team we discussed which topics we thought would be suitable to cover over the course of the series. We discussed in detail what kind of things would need to be discussed and which people would be best suited to talk about each segment. We decided that during the first week we would cover; the history of the Oscars, Iconic Oscar moments, politics, fashion, music and our Oscar predictions. I was given the category of Oscar predictions to host alongside Matty as the group thought that as a pair we would have a more natural feel presenting wise and would be able to talk about each category in more detail than other people might be able to.
For the second week we decided that  as a group we would cover; The Oscar winners, Trump and speeches, Fashion from the night, Musical performances, The after party and Oscar Highlights. Me and Matty decided that it would be best to cover who won as we were the ones who gave our predictions on who we thought would take each award. This way we could see if our predictions were correct.

Once we had decided which topics each of us would cover we started to conduct research. For my research I watched as many Oscar nominated films as I could and thought about which films I would vote for in each category and any specific points that impressed me. I also found a list of all the Nominees and looked at which films had won awards at other ceremonies including the Baftas and Golden Globes. I labelled the list that I had printed off so that we could reference the fact that they had won the other awards as well during our presenting.

 For the Second episode I created a list of all the winners and what they won for so that we had a list to remind ourselves. Due to the fact that we only had 4 hours to prepare between the end of the Oscars and the start of our filming we were only able to do a small amount of research for this episode, but because the episode was mostly our own opinions this did not effect us or the production.

I also prepared a floor plan for our second shoot that highlighted exactly how I wanted our set to be and where I wanted each of our 3 cameras and lights to be placed. This made it much easier for us to organise our set on the day as we already had an idea of how we wanted it meaning we would not have to mess on as much to make the set look good and professional.