STUDIO PRODUCTION • Test Shoot Script

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For our tests shoot Ellen and I wrote out a script to give us an idea of what we wanted the trailer to be like. For many of the shows, the trailers were a bundle of adverts fro a mixture of different shows, not one specific one. They also included clips from episodes, which is something we cannot do as it’s a pilot show.

I looked at trailers for 8 out of 10 Cats as this is in a similar style to The Big Movie Quiz. For their trailers, the show clips from the show, focussing on the comedy aspect, they include and shots of the host and the contestants as they’re famous this this would be something that interests their audience.

For our trailer we need to create something that doesn’t start with shots of the set as we don’t have access to ours, we need to use our characters and put then in a scenario to create our trailer. For this we took the idea of using our two characters, the host and Norman and using them in the trailer. We wanted to have in a cinema setting where the two characters were taking to each other watching a movie, and then the trailer for the show appears and they get really excited about the show. Our aim for this was to try and get our audience excited about the show by showing the host and Norman looking excited about it. 

We included timing so we had some idea of how long each shot should so that we didn't go over our allocated time for it. 



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