Crime Seen
Crime Seen is the second group project we’ve undertaken in video productions, but this is much bigger than Science Friction and we’ve expanded the group to 10 people. The brief was to produce a 25 minute live show with several pre-recorded segments, using a variety of facilities and techniques.
The Crime Seen logo
We chose to create a spoof Crimewatch style show, much like Brasseye. We scripted several VT packages and live segments for the show, many of which I wrote. I took a leading role in the production and post-production of the show to drive the timeline and I got roped in to presenting a couple of segments!
The full show schedule runs as follows:
- Title sequence – a mix of recorded footage with 3D graphics and stills with a custom written theme tune;
- Introduction – a live section introducing with the 2 main presenters;
- VT package 1 – a fake story about the murder of the Vice Chancellor’s pet panda, presented by myself filmed at various locations;
- Crime weather – a live segment of the ‘crime weather forecast’ for the coming week, this used a retro-reflective LED green screen;
- Ad break – a 3 minute fake ad break consisting of 4 adverts, book-ended with a ‘tea-time teaser’ question;
- Crime news – a live segment covering recent crime stories from over the world;
- A phone-in – a live, unscripted, phone-in segment using fake callers;
- VT package 2 – a story about a counterfeiting ring based in Wales, shot like a MacIntire Investigates episode;
- Interview – an (improvised) interview follow up to the panda story in VT package 1, I was the interviewer for this segment;
- E-mails – this section was much like the phone-in segment, and was used to easily fill/cut down the show’s runtime;
- Live musical performance – a live performance, directed using a 3 camera set up, this was used to maintain the shows length.
We got the opportunity to use various pieces of studio equipment and really concentrated on the efficient running of the show. Fortunately everything came together brilliantly. The edited highlights, out-takes and a spoof advert are below.
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