The first one I looked at was Pointless which I saw with my college media class. The show's set background colour is a dark blue/purple red colour. On the right hand side of the set they have a score board. The score board gets lower and lower and the goal is to say a Pointless answer. If you get the lowest score, you get through to the next round. Every time someone says a pointless answer there is a new jackpot total. The jackpot goes up everytime someone loses the game. On the left hand side is where Alexander Armstrong stands. He is the main presenter of the show and on the right hand side with his special little table is Richard Osman who always has a laptop in front of him but you never see him use it. He also has papers with all the answers written on them. I think if they ever got rid of the presenters they should get someone who is fun to watch like Ant and Dec as they always make live TV more fun to watch.
The audience who watch the show sit right at the very back and there is a host who tries to make the crowd look like they are having fun. The entertainer told the audience everytime the score board went below a certain number that they had to start making a suspense noise and if they got a low score the audience had to cheer. There was also another member of the crew who was making sure everyone was ok and if they needed a drink just to shout him. There is one big camera flying round filming the whole show. There were two camera operators that were running back and forward trying to get the best shot. There were also two other camera operators, one on the far left and one on the far right.
The second show I will be taking about is the Jeremy Kyle Show which is such an awful show. I can't wait until it is not on television anymore. The show colour background is bright blue. The set is very boring, they have a stage and normally about 4 seats for the family to come and start shouting like they always do. I think that bright colours, for the show work really well. I think if they had a dark set it would create a horrible feeling for the viewers watching it at home, or even for those people on the set. Bright colours, always make a show look better
The show's open sequence is old clips from the past shows but all of them are of Jeremy Kyle looking angry or laughing at someone. The show uses bright bold letters "The Jeremy Kyle Show" then after that they use sub writing and you read about the story he is going to deal with. Whenever you watch the Jeremy Kyle Show he is always wearing a suit and looking very smart but when the show first came into production he wore casual clothing making him self look less professional.
The Jeremy Kyle Show is the only show that I know where you see the outside of the set because when the guests run off and start crying and he as a go at them, you can see the ITV studio which has really small walls and corridors and not much breathing room. On the set there are two stage doors, one on the far left and one on the far right. That is where the guests of the show come through and sometimes he follows them when they have gone off in a mood or temper. In the middle of the stage they have a TV. The TV is used for the audience so that they can look at what is going on backstage. Also standing next to Jeremy most of the time is his secuity team who are there to protect him and the other guests if a guest starts to get a bit violent.
You never really see much of the crew but you just know that they are in the background. You see someone hand Jeremy the lie detector and DNA results. You also see one of the crew hold a microphone up in the air and you see three cameras. One on the left, one in the middle and one on the right. You do see his after care team member, Graham also. Other than that there is not much to the show. The show and the set are very boring. What I mean by that comment is nothing really happens in the show, all people do is argue and fight, thats why I think the show is boring.
I think with the technical side of both shows they really splash out on the money front, the equipment is so expensive. I thought it was great seeing the show Pointless being made live. The best thing about seeing the show live was that you got to see what it is like on a set and how the TV crew adapts to making sure the scenes correctly by stopping and starting the filming. If you make a mistake with both The Jeremy Kyle show and Pointless, both presenters have a microphone so that the audience can hear the presenters but with security on Pointless, you never really see a bodyguard. However on The Jeremy Kyle show, security is high and there is always a bodyguard on each side of the door.
When watching both shows you never really see the people working on the cameras. The crew filming the show usually cut to the audience and the presenter or the guests who are taking part in the show. On the Jeremy Kyle show, you normally get to see the set when one of the guests storms off in a fit, to me it just looks like a boring average set just very bland. The same goes for Pointless, the set is very bland and boring with not much going for it.
With the camera shots of both shows, Pointless uses a lot of mid shots of the guest and the audience and close ups of both the performers. On set, the host of Pointless uses a computer to show you a score, this is the score board they use on close ups and mid shots to show you the score board.
The same is used for The Jeremy Kyle show, shots being used in the same way with close ups of Jeremy, then a mid shot of the audience then a close up of the guests and that is about it really.
On the camera front with Pointless, when we went to watch it live as a group, the cameramen were never standing still for a minute they were running back and forward to get the best shots for the show. On the far left they had a camera man, in the middle they had a cameraman, and on the far right they had a cameraman.
With the Jeremy Kyle Show they use the same format as they do for Pointless, they have cameras on each side sliding on both sides to get the best and perfect shots for the show.
Both shows use a lot of midshots and close ups of the presenter. The close ups are used for when the host or presenter is talking. Both shows pan around the audience a lot. But on The Jeremy Kyle Show they pan to get the audeinces reaction to when something has happened.
A lot of the time the reactions of the audience is shock on the Jeremy Kyle show.Sometimes family members sit in the audience but they did not want to take part in the show but often end up shouting things out once people are on stage. Jeremy will then go and talk to them or tell them to "shut up".
They end both shows by rolling the credits with party themed and very upbeat music. It is like Pop music and in a way they are ended it on a lighter note. If they ended it in a doom and gloom way it would ruin the whole feeling and mood of the show for me.
When you watch Pointless, the people I think that go on the show, are people who have had a good education and are professional and not the sort of people who grew up on the rough streets of Gosport. The show starts off really easy and then it starts to get harder towards the end of the show when the contestants can win often quite a lot of money.
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