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Esther Explores the Market
What I learned during this assignment is that many homes exist in the marketplace for different types of reality TV. A new learning for me was to understand the business aspect of the mergers and how many channels are owned under an umbrella. I learned that time is required to understand themes underlying a concept, how it aligns with existing channel brands and about new specific resources that are available in understanding the marketplace.
Assignment #1
Channel: HGTV
HGTV’s Brand is:
Properties. Feel good/heartwarming stories. Ordinary People. Relationships, Competition, Major life decisions. Entertaining and aspirational home and lifestyle content.
Channel: Bravo
Bravo’s Brand is:
Aspirational affluence, relationships, drama, beautiful people, locations and lifestyles, food, property, fashion, design, digital and pop culture.
Channel: ID (Investigation Discovery)
ID’s Brand is:
Crime, justice, redemption, and vindication. Ordinary people, relationships, mystery, intrigue
Assignment #2
1. Using a few key words, characterize your reality show idea. We’ve already talked about formats on day one. So, let’s instead stick to words that describe themes, trends, tone, and characters — BIG ideas like the descriptions for TLC above.
Themes: Ambition, Music, Hopes, Dreams and aspirations, young and attractive people, relationships
2. Let’s dive deeper into your idea, or any idea if you’re not working on a specific one. Select an idea and give us a 1st draft answer for each of the following:
A.
What’s at stake (the loss or gain) emotionally, physically, or materially
for the characters in my show?Money
– income for the day to day based on their work performance while
juggling dreams of breaking into the industryRelationships
– how they interact with friends that are also their competitionDreams
– hopes for the future, change in their current statusB.
What kind of viewer might enjoy the show?Musicians
Music
lovers and fansRecent
College GradsThose
within or connected to music industryYoung
professionals starting out in their careersC.
What elements are the most compelling to watch in my show?Relationships
between coworkers and friendsLifestyles
of those that have made it in the industryInside
the label – what does the job actually includeD.
What does a viewer learn (or take home) after watching the show?Importance
of relationshipsMusic
industry from insidersHow
to break inProvides
hope to those currently struggling
Understanding
of the sacrifices it takes to preserve and make itE.
What <i style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>other show on cable or streaming most closely resembles
my show idea?Love
and Hip Hop (Bravo)Westside
(Netflix &Warner Bros)BlackPink
(Netflix)FirstWorld
Problems, Studio 24 (MTV)F.
On what platform — cable or streaming — could my show idea fit?Cable
or StreamingG.
On what cable channel(s) could my show fit?Bravo
Netflix
MTV -
Michael Kemp Explores the Market! Lesson 2: What I Learning Doing This Assignment:
The various packaging techniques for each category of shows using their keyword pitches and enticing viewpoints in short, quick attention-getting presentations.
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Michael Kemp Explores the Market! Lesson 2: What I Learning Doing This Assignment:
The various packaging techniques for each category of shows using their keyword pitches and enticing viewpoints in short, quick attention-getting presentations.
Channel: HGTV
1. “Love it or List it”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-OXiXnG6-k&list=PLk1VXuJj4hph898EREoSaM7IdyPOkA454&index=167
2. “House Hunters International”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVXycQ-KyxM
3. “Celebrity IOU”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYcJbW8OMRM&feature=emb_logo
HGTV’s brand is Relationships, decisions, renovations, transformation, ordinary people, diversity, family.
Channel: Bravo
1. “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HxMLE4PgEA
2. “Below Deck”
https://www.bravotv.com/below-deck/season-8/videos/your-first-look-at-below-deck-season-8
3. “Million Dollar Listing”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLTxqpuJDcs
Bravo’s brand is Relationships, decisions, competitions, decisions, transformation, travel, working people, diversity.
Channel: ID (Investigation Discovery)
1. “True Conviction”
2. “Murder in the Heartland”
3. “See No Evil”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBAmQce83Co&feature=emb_logo
ID’s brand is Investigative, real-life, drama, decisions, relationships, ordinary people, travel, resourceful.
ASSIGNMENT #2
1. Using a few keywords, characterize your reality show idea. We’ve already talked about formats on day one. So, let’s instead stick to words that describe themes, trends, tone, and characters — BIG ideas like the descriptions for TLC above.
2. Let’s dive deeper into your idea, or any idea if you’re not working on a specific one. Select an idea and give us a 1st draft answer for each of the following:
A. What’s at stake (the loss or gain) emotionally, physically, or materially for the characters in my show?
To strive for excellence/to be the best.
The True trial of the human spirit/coping with grief and loss.
The Prestige/to be the symbol of stature in their community and the country.
Bragging Rights because people accomplishing and overcoming obstacles matter most.
Money/awards for recognition, pride, personal endeavors, and funding in-house training.
B. What kind of viewer might enjoy the show?
Individuals and couples who love to travel.
People who enjoy challenging competitions and fair play.
People achieving success and understanding failure.
Those who consider the show ‘shelter TV’ because they can learn to protect themselves and their families, while other things are happening in the world, both an escape from global chaos and a window into the dramatics of search and rescue by ordinary people from all walks of life who are CERT volunteers.
C. What elements are the most compelling to watch in my show?
Involving everyday people from all backgrounds, seamlessly achieving the same goals of working together on a time constraint to meet their goals in an emotional thrill ride through the seven skill sets and into the lives of the courageous CERT Volunteers who hold it all together with their actions and host interviews.
Each episode is a master class in educating viewers about the fundamentals of survival during a crisis incident or disaster.
Important lesson tips to be learned and demonstrated by the Main Host of the show.
The action-oriented urgency to quickly arrive, suit up, and pursue those in danger.
Realistic scenario reenactments using live sets, materials, animals, personnel, and their relationships in performing their skilled jobs.
The Tension, encouragement, incorporation of values, honesty, integrity, and ethics.
The clock is ticking to saving lives, transport, remove obstructions, triage and treat medically, suppress fires, and understand the basics of command and control.
The Focusing on sometimes complex teams of colorful personalities working together in high-stress situations.
The episodic events are designed as a friendly competition, the primary reason for each event is to build camaraderie and relationships among teams before an incident happens so they are more familiar with working with other CERT organizations during a time of crisis, as well as being used as a way for teams to see other ideas and strategies to solve similar problems.
D. What does a viewer learn (or take home) after watching the show?
That CERT is America’s greatest resource and asset. Everyone has a family and every family has a story.
The Inspiration to want to volunteer for free CERT Training in their own communities and learn what it takes to help others.
The sights and sounds of the inner workings and dynamics that are needed to become a trained CERT Certified Volunteer to keep the community and country safe and responsive in times of disaster.
The Delivery of facts that increase the quality of life for the ill and injured.
Intriguing Lesson Tips to keep family, home, car, RV, camping, etc., safe and useable during a crisis or disaster.
How individuals and families can work collectively and effectively together through planning evacuations safely and preparedness in food, shelter, medicines, and pets.
What training and tools can be accessed and demonstrated to save lives and avoid catastrophe at home or on vacation.
Promotional of sponsored products to purchase shown and demonstrated on each episode by the Main Host with alternative sponsored selections.
Building a social experience with others around each episode online and in the workplace.
E. What other show on cable or streaming most closely resembles my show idea?
Tough As Nails, competitors, relationships, hardworking ordinary people in real-world challenges to achieve monetary gains while performing strength, endurance, life skills, and mental toughness.
The Challenge, competitors, relationships, monetary gain.
9-1-1 educational values and quick responses to every day’s immediate needs.
Street Outlaws, competitors, relationships, rewards.
American Gladiators, competitors, relationships, monetary gain.
F. On what platform — cable or streaming — could my show idea fit?
Network
Cable
Streaming
G. On what cable channel(s) could my show fit?
TLC
HGTV
USA
SPIKE TV
MTV
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Brendan Williams Lesson #2 The Marketplace
In this assignment, I learned how to categorize various TV channels or streaming services and start thinking who I think would be best to air or produce my show idea. Also, start knowing who my audience is so I can figure out what they would like to see on screen.
Assignment Part 1:
What is HGTV’s brand? House make-overs, home buying, helping ordinary people by extraordinary homes, revealing the professional lives of real estate agents, transforming old homes to either sell or to help enrich the lives of the current occupants.
What is Bravo’s brand? Revealing the glamorous life of various professions, catfights between wealthy wives with botox, showing the lives of wealthy people on yachts, showing people that are really into causing drama, make-overs, flamboyant people.
What is ID’s brand? True crime, helping families get closure on losing a love one, following the lives of detectives as they try to solve a murder, shows about crime seen from both the criminal and victims perspectives.
Assignment Part 2:
What is at stake (the loss or gain) emotionally, physically, or materially for the characters in my show?
Money for charity.
Cooks trying to not break under pressure.
Relationship – The relationship between the head chef and his employees.
The reputation of their restaurant.
What kind of viewer might enjoy the show?
Cooks looking for ideas for fusion cuisine ideas.
Home cooks.
Food critics.
People who love food art.
Students studying culinary arts.
People wanting to be inspired by food.
People who want to learn about food from other countries.
What elements are the most compelling to watch in my show?
The backstory of the restaurants and how they came to be.
The dishes that the cooks present to the judges.
The heartwarming stories on the various charities.
The comedy element that the host (a stand up comedian) will bring to the show.
What does a viewer learn (or take home) after watching the show? A viewer will learn a couple things about the kind of cuisine in a different country, also they will get ideas for their own fusion cuisine ideas. They will learn how you can combine Mexican and Chinese dishes to create an unforgettable experience for the diner. Also, the viewer learns about an important charity and the hard work they do and why the restaurant is fighting for the specific charity.
What other show on cable or streaming most closely resembles my show idea?Chopped, Master Chef, Sugar Rush, and The Great British Bake-Off.
On what platform, cable or streaming, could my show idea fit? Streaming most likely.
On what cable channels could my show fit?
Netflix.
Food Network.
Bravo.
NBC.
HBO.
Hulu.
CBS.
Youtube Originals.
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Laura Souders
In this assignment, I learned how to recognize the types of shows/themes that each channel/streaming service considers their brand and where my show idea would fit and what elements needed.
Part 1 Brands
HGTV- Home make-overs, ordinary people, fun, light, everyday decisions
Bravo- Lifestyles of rich/famous, grand, conflict, drama
ID- Unsolved crimes, mysteries, interviews of people investigating, recreating the scene
Part 2 My Show
What’s at stake?
Wondering if the relationship of two people who live together can be saved.
Deciding whether they should/can keep the house.
Viewers?
People interested in organizing shows.
People interested in relationship shows.
Diyers, women
Compelling elements?
Seeing inside the relationship/lives of people who live together.
Watching the triumphs and struggles of reclaiming their home.
Before & After pictures of the home.
Learning if the couple continues to live together, in that home.
Take-Away for Viewers?
Tips for organizing your own space- what and where things can be donated/recycled/sold
Relationship tools
Comparable shows? Hoarders, The Home Edit
Platform or Streaming? Fits in both
Channels? TLC, Discovery +, Netflix, NBC, Youtube Originals.
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What I learned during this assignment is the different brands of the players in reality TV. You can see where your project has place and other areas to seek or avoid.
Assignment 1.
HGTV’s brand is: wholesome/family, HGTV’s Brand is: make-over properties. Ordinary People. Relationships, Competition, Major life decisions. Entertaining and a ‘what if” quality for the viewer.
Bravo: Melodramatic lifestyle and beautiful, affluent people, conflict & drama, wheeling and dealing, high end location, people and property. For the cool in us, maybe.
ID’s Brand is: Crime, workings of justice/injustice, sensational/tawdry evidence, who done it. Ordinary people, problems, mystery, complications, resolutions or not.
ASSIGNMENT 2
A. Using a few key words, characterize your reality show idea. We’ve already talked about formats on day one. So, let’s instead stick to words that describe themes, trends, tone, and characters — BIG ideas like the descriptions for TLC above.
Themes: discovery, challenge, hard-work, teamwork, wholesome, history, educational.
B. Appeal
1.People of all ages, family friendly, educational without being boring.
2. Dinosaur lovers
3. People who love to travel and see new environments.
4. People who love the outdoors and nature
5. Aspirational viewers looking for an escape from the every day
C. What elements are the most compelling to watch my show
1. mystery – discovering bones that are thousands of years old, that have never been seen by man.
2. Far away, sweeping settings in nature
3. Arecognizable host, having had a starring role in the Lost World Jurassic Park, as Dr. Burke, the hippie paleontologist, who has been on many dinosaur digs. Likeable assistants.
4. Mysteries – Exploring the unknown. minute to minute you never know what you’re going to find.
5. The discovery and the visual aids about the creatures we have found in the episode.
6. Construct a virtual dinosaur from the bones we have discovered on the show.
7. A paleontologist to explain and identify the fossil finds.
8. The finding of new bones and added visual aids about the actual creatures found.
D. What does a viewer learn (or take home) after watching the show?
1. They learn the workings of a fossil site, the who, what, where, of a site and how it works. Also warns us more to fossils then the T Rex
2. Far away destinations to discover new finds, sometimes entirely new species. Also the shrinking habitat for digs (farmers selling land, permission needed)
3. Similarities between modern and prehistoric creatures.
4. Exploring the unknown. You never know what you’ll find.
5. Paintings, pictures and video reproductions make dinosaurs/fossils come alive. We would also visit museums, hopefully talking to the curators or the paleontologist in charge.
6. Celebrity diggers. Many celebs are big dinosaur fans.
E. 1 Dino Hunter – Discovery, Oak Island – History, Any dino show.
F. On what platform — cable or streaming — could my show idea fit?
Cable or streaming
G. On what cable channel(s) could my show fit?
HISTORY
TLC
HULU
NETFLIX
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ScreenwritingU Reality TV, Lesson 2
The Marketplace
Part One: Determining Marketing.
From the trailers viewed on popular shows, try to rise about the show’s subject matter and observe themes, feelings, characters and emotions the shows feature and what’s at stake.. then answer the question:
This channel’s brand is ________.
HGTV – 1. Love it or List it.”, House Hunters International and Celebrity IOU.
HGTV’s brand is creating/finding that dream home with an inside look into the relationships, goals and lifestyle of how they go about choosing a house to call home.
Channel: Bravo – Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Below Deck and Million Dollar Listing.
Bravo’s Brand is a behind the scenes look at the lives and relationships of the rich and famous.
Channel I.D. (Investigation Discovery) True Conviction, Murder in the Heartland and See No Evil.
I.D.’s brand is a Docu-series investigating real life heinous crimes and cases, many unsolved or not brought to justice.
Part # 2 – 1. Harmonizing Families is a Competition Docu-Series about musical families competing for cash and prizes. The family that plays together, stays together and we see how the love of music unites them.
A. The family stands to win a cash prize that allows them to improve their lives and provide for their post-secondary education. The show also helps boost their confidence and perhaps allows all of them to continue a musical/recording or professional career in music if they so choose. It gives them international exposure, so they would like to fare well in the standing and look professional.
B. What kind of viewer might enjoy the show? Young families, anyone interested in music or becoming a musician or performer.
C. What elements are most compelling?
How the family gets over its problems and offer emotional support to each other. The performances themselves.
D. What does the viewer learn (or take home) after watching the show? Some tips on how to mentally and physically prepare for a large-scale performance and how to plan their performance on stage. They should also feel good about seeing these people they’ve come to somewhat know get through their big day.
E. What other show on cable or streaming most closely resembles my show idea?
Perhaps, America’s Got Talent.
F. On what platform – cable or streaming – could my show idea fit on?
G. This show could be a spinoff of The Masked Singer on Fox or America’s Got Talent on NBC. Perhaps it could also go to Arts and Entertainment as a docu-series. The Grand Old Opry does country, bluesgrass, blues and comedy. If it were more gritty than glam, PBS offers Austin City Limits every Friday night where various artists perform and PBS does many docu-series.
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Sophie Explores the Market!
What I learned doing this assignment is I have a lot of the show fleshed out.
1. Using a few key words, characterize your reality show idea. We’ve already talked about formats on day one. So, let’s instead stick to words that describe themes, trends, tone, and characters — BIG ideas like the descriptions for TLC above.
Three Trans hosts from varying cultural, career and life backgrounds travel the reaches of America, exploring what connects/divides us as human beings. The show focuses on who really makes up America. We will focus on four types. First those who live double lives, like the dental hygienist who is a burlesque dance at night. Second people<font face=”inherit”> who intersect with the trans community, such as politicians who write laws that effect trans people’s lives. We will also visit </font>celebrities<font face=”inherit”> that have interacted with the trans community such as Tyler Perry who has helped transgender youths in Atlanta. Lastly we will visit people who hate us, such as preacher that call us abominations. Each Episode we will be traveling to vastly different environments across the US and will include make overs to help people visualize all different kinds of life transitions, discussions ranging from the deep and political to the lighthearted and nonchalant over various cultural culinary staples, shared cultural activities for communities to bond and learn from each other, as well as, interviews and stories from the mouths of people who make up our country.</font>
2. Let’s dive deeper into your idea, or any idea if you’re not working on a specific one. Select an idea and give us a 1st draft answer for each of the following:
A. What’s at stake (the loss or gain) emotionally, physically, or materially for the characters in my show?<div class=””>
B. What kind of viewer might enjoy the show? Anyone who wants to understand the lives of transgender people. Anyone who is curious what a transition is or is not.
C. What elements are the most compelling to watch in my show?
The interactions between the host and people who look different than most Americans. Tension between people who want to ban us vet don’t know who we truly are. Peoples struggle with acceptance and suicide.
D. What does a viewer learn (or take home) after watching the show?
What it means to be different and how the world truly looks at us. Who really makes up America.
E. What other show on cable or streaming most closely resembles my show idea?
The show is like Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown meets Queer eye.
F. On what platform — cable or streaming — could my show idea fit?
Revry, Hulu, Netflix,
G. On what cable channel(s) could my show fit?
Logo, Travel Channel, TLC, Bravo,
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