With the Oscars run down finally complete I can safely say that the whole series was pretty successful. For an individual point of view I think I presented my section very well and managed to learn from the mistakes that I had made in the first episode to improve my second one.
Although my first shoot was not 100% perfect I believe that I still managed to present well. I felt as though my presenting was very natural and fluent and I quickly relaxed and got into the swing of things. Myself and Matty had great chemistry and it felt very easy to present alongside him as we both understood the topic very well and could comment on most subjects in a professional and informational manner. Due to the fact that none of our episode was scripted whilst watching the episode back it looked very professional had a natural flow to the conversation which is exactly what we wanted from our episode. The only disadvantage about not having a script is the fact that we recorded far too much footage and talked about each category for far too long. If we did have a script this would not have been an issue and we would have known exactly how long we were able to talk for in each category, this would have meant that during the editing process we would have faced a lot less problems than we did and would have most likely been able to get our episode edited and uploaded on time rather than a few hours after scheduled. I thought the set up that we used for our shows was very simple but worked well. We were only able to use 2 set lights due to the fact that the bulb from the other light went off just before we started filming our episode. Because we needed back lighting we instead used an over head room light which actually made the light look and feel more natural than it did with the 3 set lights. We used 3 cameras, a mater shot and a close up for both me and Matty and this allowed us to engage with the audience more and made it slightly easier for us in the editing process.
I thought that the set that we created looked quite professional and resembled a talk show set very well. I liked that we included the coffee table in our episode as it made the set look more homely and I especially liked the use of the TV so that we were able to make reference to images on screen whilst talking.
I think that both myself and Matty came very prepared for this shoot as we had both previously watched a number of Oscar nominated films and thought about each category and who we think should win even before the nominees were announced. The subject was something that me and Matty had good general knowledge on anyway and so we were perfectly suited in presenting the category.
During myself and Matty's second episode we took all of the mistakes that we had made during the first episode and improved upon them greatly. We decided that we needed to be more precise with our opinions and make all of our discussions much shorter so that we did not give ourselves an impossible and over ambitious task in the editing process like we did for our first episode, especially due to the fact that we had to film, edit and upload the episode all on the same day. I thought that our presenting styles stayed exactly the same as in the first episode as we did not have any problems with how the presenting went and wanted to continue with our natural chatty style and flow. Our set was slightly simpler due to the fact that we did not include the TV because it wasn't required and we didn't see the point in having it there for new reason. Equipment wise we sued exactly the same set up of lights and cameras as our presenting was incredibly similar. 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. The episode wasn't very fact heavy and only had a simple information that needed to be conveyed that was present on the lists that I prepared. Once again Mattys presenting was very natural and it was easy to work with him. Matty also stayed up until the early hours of the morning to watch the Oscar coverage and be the authority on what happened during the ceremony. One issue that we did face in our second episode was once again in the editing process. We had tried to use some new equipment whilst recording audio in hopes of capturing a more clear and direct stream of audio. Unfortunately due to a fault with the equipment that was not picked up during recording, horrendous peaking could be heard on the track and so the audio was unusable, luckily we had backed ourselves up and also recorded ourselves using a boom mike as well and so we used the audio from that instead.
The Ufilms Crew were all fantastic during the production of the rundown with everyone chipping in and helping each other out whenever we needed it. Everybody took on a number of roles (including on screen performances) to ensure that what we did was of a professional standard. To many of the group the idea of presenting probably sounded like their worst nightmare but everyone honestly did a fantastic job no matter how much they were panicking or dreading it. I thought that our distribution over the 2 weeks could have been a little better but we were still active everyday uploading new things to all aspects of our social media even if it was just a post saying that more content is on the way. The only reason that we missed the times that we set was due to technical difficulties and over ambition.
To conclude I thought that the Ufilms Oscars rundown was a huge success both from a production point of view and also an audience point of view. We learnt from our mistakes and we able to improve on them in the second week to create even better content.
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