How reality TV works

In our project we are working on a Reality Television how based on the show American pickers the character we used are made up by Owen Rye. The show we are filming is "Second Hand Hustlers". One if our readings is  "How Reality TV Works." Which gives us an insight of how each knock and cranny works in the industry. Although our film will not be competently reality, its genre certainty is. If one looks at most Reality programs most of them are scripted. They bring the illusion of  reality something that we are trying to accomplish with our audience.

We havve already lined the cast and times to shoot our reality TV  “Television has been invaded by, and perhaps risks being overrunwith, ordinary folk who have seeped through the screen much as Alicesmushed through the looking glass. . . . The audience is the show, the show is the audience. . . .”






Rupel, David. "How Reality TV Works." Writer's Guild of America, West. Writer's

Guild of America, West, 2013. Web. 27 Jan. 2014.

Business Plan: The Business and Art of Producing Reality TV.

In every business idea or in this case a television pitch has to have a business proposal or business model.  

In our Capstone we are working with a business plan or proposal that includes:

• Budget

Currently our budget for this project around just a couple of hundreds of dollars ($100-300). Used for:

Costumes, gas, domain name and props. 

• Location

We will be filming around Harper's Ferry and other locations to establish the best shots. 

• Mission Statement 

We want to create a visual reality show that strongly uses humor and satire to our video. We not only want to make our audience laugh but to we want them to relate to the characters Owen Rye created. An "Are those real people" type of response. 

• Goals

Our common goal is create an great interpretation of a southern thug american pickers with lots of laughs, not only to receive an A but maybe pitch the idea to network or turn into a Web series. 

• Concept

Our concept of Second Hand Hustlers is two characters Unkle Trill and Yung Stunnah go an an adventure to find rare urban clothing. This is an more humor reality television based program.  

• Market/Target audience 

Our main target market would be around the age of 18-35, who typcally watch programs such as Adult Swim programs, Trailer Park Boys, Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Ali G show.  

• Competitive analysis 

Our main competitor would be shows on Adult Swim such as  Children's Hospital, Squidbillies, etc.   

 

Pitch Ideas

Pitch Ideas

In of our resources that we have, Greenlit: Developing Factual/reality TV Ideas from Concept to Pitch. it talks about the concept of a idea for script writing. The author Nicola Lees talks about how she struggle with getting an idea off the ground. She says "You need passion, guts, determination and a thick skin. And it helps if you don't mind rejection." This notion of having a a good attitude and an absence of fear of being shutdown sounds like good advice. Most ideas are just ideas, a starting point to something great. When Owen came up with the idea for an American Pickers parody he had a a lot of different concepts and ideas for it. Now we brainstorm different scenarios and even come up with new ideas for the show along the way. It even took us a while to come up with a name now, " Second Hand Hustlers" Owen Rye's baby will come alive in front of many to see. Greenlight said that in order to capture an audience we need a killer title, a one-paged entitled pitch and a good log line or tagline.  We have much faith in this project and will continue to strive for our vision for this reality TV show.





Lees, Nicola. Greenlit: Developing Factual/reality TV Ideas from Concept to Pitch.
London: Methuen Drama, 2010. Print.

Television Production

·         With working with cameras and lighting one must often see how far production can go in the eBook Television Production by Gerald Millerson and Jim Owens, they discuss a wide variety of techniques and styles for a production team or those interested in the field. One of the first things they talk about in the book is the size of the production team. In our capstone group we have about a small size of 5 people working on the video, a production crew greatly differ in size as the book says. There is not a “perfect” size for all crews. The right size for a project depends on the type of project that you are working on and the preferences of the director. Since Owen is the director of the reality show, he believes the amount people we have is perfect and I agree. At one end of the scale, there are directors who initiate the main idea, they write the script and even design the stage and cast the characters. A crew is there to help the director make his vision become true, that is the productions teams’ job.  There are different roles a production crew has there is the executive producer, producer, assistant producer/ associate producer, director, asst. director, production asst, floor manager/stage assistant, technical director, make-up artist, costume designer, graphics designer, camera operator, lighting operator, audio technician and video editor.