Post day 7 Assignment Here

[Brendan Williams]

Brendan’s Budget Considerations –

In this assignment, I learned how to start thinking in terms of cost if I ever meet with a producer and they’re trying to figure out how much the stuff will cost. I’m thinking of this show being a Medium Cost Reality Show.

Assignment #1 –

High Cost Reality Show: The Pack.

List of considerations affecting the budget are: Talent, catering, music, cameras, location feeds, shoot days, casting of both people and animals, lodging, shooting permits, ground transportation. And lodging.

Medium Cost Reality Show: Haute Dog.

List of considerations affecting the budget are: Shoot days, producers, catering, talent, music, cameras, graphics, Covid19 testing, and the casting of people, judges, and the animals.

Low Cost Reality Show: House Hunters.

List of considerations affecting the budget are: Shoot days, cameras, air transportation, lodging, catering, producers, graphics, music, and casting of the people looking for houses.

Assignment #2

Show: World Cuisine Cook Off.

Prep Days: The prep days consist of finding restaurants or going through the submitted applications and trying to pair up the best restaurants to compete against each other. Also, reaching out to the charities they’re playing for and getting a taped segment of the charities talking about what they could do with the prize money. Also, packing up the kitchen set with ingredients that would make it possible for each team to make a variety of dishes.

Shoot Days: Each episode is filmed in a single day. Each challenge is about an hour, but we only see a small tiny portion of them cooking in each episode.

Location Fees: The entire show is filmed in a sound stage with a fake kitchen and dinning area. The only off location shoots would be visiting the charities and perhaps getting shots of the restaurants that the contestants work at.

Cameras: The show uses multiple cameras to shoot at different angels. Some cameras are on tripods and others are handheld that the cameramen will use to shoot down at the contestants cooking.

Air Transportation: The show will be willing to pay for contestants to fly out to the soundstage and participate in the competition. Each team has four members.

Lodging: The contestants are put in hotels.

Talent: The talent are the cooks, however they need to be able to have a personality, confidence, and fun to watch on television. They could be super funny or have some kind of story that makes people emotional, but these cooks need to make the audience feel something. The casting director will be part of finding the right talent and chefs to take part in the game.

Catering: There will be breakfast and lunch and dinner probably made for the cast and crew during the shooting days.

Producers: The producers will be producing the show and there are multiple producers overseeing different aspects of the show.

Graphics: There will be a title card with the name of the show. Also, during the episode, we see names of the cooks and what restaurant and city they work at.

Music: The music will be typical competition background music. No specific songs will be played just suspenseful cooking music will be played during the challenge.

Casting: The casting director will be in charged of finding the talent to participate in the show.

Covid19 Testing: If we are still in a pandemic when this show is being made, the cooks, judges, and crew will be tested. Also, the kitchen will be built to allow social distancing.

Ground Transportation: The transportation will be escorting the contestants to the hotel and back.

Shooting Permits: The only shooting permit is to shoot at a soundstage.

[Michael Kemp]

Michael Kemp Alternate-TV Show Budget Considerations. Lesson 7 What I learned doing this assignment is all the budgetary requirements needed to produce a show and their usefulness.

ASSIGNMENT #1 For this assignment, using the production elements listed below, take a stab at determining the decisions or considerations that contribute to one or more of these reality shows.

HIGH-COST REALITY SHOW “The Pack” (Amazon Prime) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bTBu0i1HVk Budget: $4 million / episode List of considerations affecting budget are: All, but catering, except maybe for dogs. Add casting. IMBD lists 21 producers, 4 editors, 12 teams of dogs and their human counterparts, from Amazon Studios for broadcast on USA Network. Travel.

MEDIUM-COST REALITY SHOW “Haute Dog (HBO Max) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zbS0RnH0M8 Budget: $400K / episode List of consideration affecting budget are: Dog Grooming Competition. 13 producers, music (Top-40), unknown talent, all others apply inclosing travel.

LOW-COST REALITY SHOW “House Hunters” (HGTV) https://www.hgtv.com/shows/house-hunters/house-hunters-opposites-attract-videos Budget: $175K / episode List of considerations affecting budget are: Traditional vs. Modern. Narration added, no visible catering, all others apply, inclosing travel.

ASSIGNMENT #2 Let’s look at your show idea. As you do, don’t get stuck in thinking you must have the

perfect answer. This is just an opportunity for you to go through the thinking process. With your own show idea, guess how it might work for each of these budget considerations. Just give us a one-word to one sentence answer for each.

Prep Days: 1-Month 3-day Episodic

Shoot Days -Preliminaries: 5-8

EAST A vs. SOUTH A CENTRAL A vs.WEST A

16 Teams: EAST B vs. SOUTH B CENTRAL B vs WEST B

EAST C vs. SOUTH C CENTRAL C vs.WEST C

EAST D vs. SOUTH D CENTRAL D vs.WEST D

Production Office Space: Universal City, Warner Bros. Pre-Production Office

Post.Production: Transfer, Screening Room, Editorial

Location Fees: L.A. County Fire Facility, City & State

Director: Control Room Trailer, 2nd Unit, Assistant Directors, Trainee, Motor Home

Director Of Photography: Assistant Camera, Still Photographer, Videographer, Loader, Equipment, Promos/Trailers

Cameras: Overhead Drone, Lead, Team A, Team B, Team C, Team D, Fixed Talent, Stedi-Cam, Hand-Held

Location Manager: Assistant Location

Air Transportation: Team A, Team B, Team C, Team D, Talent, Crew, Equipment, Digital

Set Dressing; Leadman, Swing Gang, Set Dressing Truck

Script Supervisor; Transcriber, Episodic Script

Property: Talent Chairs, Purchases, Property Truck

Lodging: Cast & Crew, Team A, Team B, Team C, Team D, Coordinator

Talent: Three Hosts, Personal Security, Wardrobe, Makeup, 3-Motor Homes, Wardrobe & Costume Truck, Tests, Rehearsals

Payroll: Accountant, Assistant

First Aid/Medical: Shooting, Construction, Striking, Equipment, Rental, Supplies

Fireman/Standby/Full Time: County Location, Consultation, Demonstration, Safety & Health

Lighting: Supervisor, Gaffer, Best Boy, Lighting Technicians, Lighting Package

Grip: Supervisor, Dolly Grip, Best Boy, Grips, Grip Package

Catering: Cast & Crew, Atmosphere, Audience, Craft Service, Assistant

Producers 4 Executive, 6 Field, 1 Associate, 1 Challenge, 1 Supervising, Assistants

Insurance: Physicals, Broker/Fire/Aerial, Comprehensive/General/Liability, Workers Comp,, Travel/Motor, Risk/equipment /guarantor, Life & General, Errors & Omissions

Graphics: Digital, Visual Effects, Main Title Design, Computerization

Music & Copyright: Editor, Composer, Licensing & Stock, Licensing, Post Prod., Scoring

Casting (contestants, participants, or animals): Teams, Talent, Assistant Casting

COVID Testing: Cast & Crew, All Teams, All Catering, Post-Prod. Office, COVID Prod. Assistants, Fixers

Ground transportation: Coordinator, 3-Talent Limousines, 2- Crew Local Buses, 2-HoneyWagons, Captain, Camera/Grip/El ectric Trucks, Drivers, Makeup/Hair Trailers

Shooting Permits: City, County, State, Locational

Post Production-Sound: 6-Sound Foley & ADR, Sound Editing, Location Mixing/Cable/Boom/Utility, Sound Effects, Dialogue Editor, Equipment, 3-Re-Recordists, 2-Transfer Recordists

[Sophie White]

Sophie Show Budget Considerations.

What I learned doing this assignment is I have a small budget show

Prep Days – 2 to 4 weeks for producers

Talent – 2 main host and 1 to 2 guest host

COVID Testing 6 plus talent

Shoot Days 3 to 5

Catering 3 to 5 days for 10 people per show

Ground transportation – 2 vans per episode

Location Fees – minimal

Producers – 2 field

Shooting Permits – not sure if needed minimal

Cameras – 2 cam ops 4 cameras (Sony FX9 x 2; As7 x 2)

Sound 2 boom ops

Graphics – minimal

Air Transportation – 3 preseason

Music – edit decision

Lodging – 4 to 5 rooms per episode 12 to 25 room nights

Casting (contestants, participants, or animals) 1 to 2 guest stars per episode