Synopsis: “Studio 10” follows the off camera drama of a British soap opera filmed in studio 10. “The Estate” is a long running soap opera but recently viewing figures are beginning to plummet. Steve the progammes director needs to do something drastic to restore the shows popularity. He plans to air a live show and…
After watching a few of Chris Lilley’s series (Summer Heights High, We Can Be Heroes, Angry Boys) I began to see a bit more of a critical theme running through his work. After watching his most recent revival of one of his best loathed/loved characters Ja’mie in Ja’mie: Private School Girl and reading in to the…
I’ve wanted to present and produce a show on the student radio station here at the University of Bradford for a long time now. In my friend ship group we have a great dynamic and we are all hoping to work in media production so I thought we would be silly not to get on…
For the last week of december I was given a special christmas treat, courtesy of Planet PC in Birkenshaw I was able to have a play with a very exciting piece of kit. The TriCaster 8000! This is the choice vision mixer for the majority of the Local TV network stations. Mainly because it has…
Part of my work with Made TV was to write, shoot and produce a promotional video for their channel in Bristol to make the people of Bristol aware that a new station would be entering the air waves and it would be something that they had never seen before. Bristol has had a troubled history…
I made this film as part of my A-level in media studies, this film was my first endeavour in to media production. Before this film I had never experienced the joys of Final Cut Pro, i’d never even sat in front of a mac that wasn’t attached to a branch of Pc World. The only…
I wrote this script for my script writing for television module. Inspired by my own experiences and imagination the story follows Jamie and his friends in their first year of university which turns out to be more than what they bargained for. The criteria for the assessment was to write a 30min episode so it…
This was a video I produced to help recruit more members to my university trampolining club. After a successful competing year and a new semester on the horizon I decided, in my capacity as an exec member, to give us the best chance of growing the club by making a short promo to play at…
One of the highlights of my summer was my opportunity to tag along with Soccer Saturday camerapersons and riggers. I was able to tag along for two matches at two different grounds : Yeovil Town and Birmingham City. Unfortunately I never got to go to Reading’s ground and meet Chris Kamara, the resident pundit of…
To show that my creative ability and understanding of Made TV’s desired look I wrote some idents for the channel inspired by E4’s e-stings. I sent them in an E-mail to Dave McCormack the director of content and delivery. To see the scripts for the idents follow this link : Made in Bristol Idents Please…
This is the first fully scripted and story boarded short film I made at University. The task was to retell a story taken from a news paper, a fable or film and retell in around two minutes. As it was the first day of class, nobody knew each other so we awkwardly got in to…
My programme treatment thumbnails can be viewed here: Made in Bristol – program treatments #1 (will download in .docx format) I created these treatment thumbnails as a record of all of the programme ideas that I have devised over my time with Made Television both for my records and theirs. Theres nothing worse than having a lightbulb…
My study of documentary in my factual film and television module introduced me to Michael Moore. I wrote an essay in response to the way he constructs his arguments via autobiographical frameworks. A common critique of Moore is that his representation of self serves to show him as a working class ‘everyman’ which obviously he…
I wrote this essay in response to “The Act of Killing” (2013), a documentary film by Joshua Oppenheimer follow THIS LINK to find out more about the film. The film was screened as part of the Media and Conflict Interchange, an event organised by The University of Bradford’s Media School and the Department of Peace…
I produced this short film as part of my Sound & Visual Media module. I was placed in a group of five people from various media production courses, our objective was to create a short factual piece about a location in Bradford to be used by UNESCO to promote Bradford to location scouts and to…
Jamie Lowe 