Blue Peter Trip

Yesterday we went on our very first uni trip to Media City in Salford to have a behind the scenes look at Blue Peter and have a talk from those in charge of set design and lighting. That was also accompanied by a tour of the studios that Dock 10 own and hire out to channels like the BBC and ITV, along with the galleries and edit suites.

Having grown up watching Blue Peter, it was nice to be able to visit the studio. However, it wasn't the same studio that I was used to watching and I was surprised at just how small it really was. We went the day before the live shoot (which was aired tonight) as they were redoing the set ready.

I watched that episode of Blue Peter today and I don't know whether it's just the fact that I've got older but they don't make it like they used to and wasn't the same for me unfortunately.

Final Production Project

WE'RE DONE!! Yes, at long last we've finished and submitted our final production piece.

The past 4 months have seemed like a very long time in which I don't think I've ever really been able to stop thinking about the project. It has been hard work and it has been stressful but it's still been enjoyable (most of the time anyway).

So, just as a bit of a re-cap, this is what our project's about.

Way back at the end of October I made contact with the Liverpool band, Rangoon Sons. I put the idea to them of doing a music promo as my final piece for uni and they agreed that they'd be up for being involved. I then pitched this as my idea and took on 3 more people to form my group. Since then we've been having endless production meetings and brainstorming, organising shooting dates with the band and getting various pieces of content off of them, going out filming (in most weather) and then topped off with long hours in the edit.

It's not all been plain sailing but we got there in the end - thankfully - and still all in one piece. So here it is:



We had also decided we would be creating a website for the band as part of the project but we were unfortunately told to drop this in the final week before the deadline. As we had done a fair it of work on the website already and the band were still interested in having it, I am taking on the project to finish it off to be able to hand it over to the boys. In the mean time, check them out on Twitter, Facebook, Soundcloud and Instagram.