Wednesday, 1 February 2017

Studio Production: This Morning (ITV)

As part of my research I watched a studio based factual programme.

THIS MORNING

This Morning is a daytime magazine programme broadcast live weekdays on ITV1 at 10:30am. The covers a range of factual based content from news, showbiz, style, beauty, home and garden, food, and health.

The show uses a mixture of live studio links and interviews, VTs, and satellite link ups to tell the stories it aims to tell. As the show is broadcast live from a tv studio it has the same type of crew any other studio show would have (including a director, vision mixer, floor manager, camera ops, runners etc). The set itself is made to look like a living room, with large windows built into the studio that allow the audience to see the London south bank outside. All of this adds to the homely feel the show is supposed to have.

When watching the show they make no attempt to cover up the fact that they are broadcasting live from a tv studio. In fact Studio 8 at The London Studios (where the show is filmed) has the show logo painted on the outside in big text so everyone can see it. They also tend to use a wide shot of the studio showing cameras and crew at work when they go in and out of ad breaks. The presenters also often refer to 'the voice in their ear' live on the show, again demonstrating how they don't hide the fact that it is a live tv show.




I like this idea of not hiding the fact that it is a live show being broadcast from a tv studio, something I will think about incorporating into my own show. I find that you can learn a lot about how they make television shows just by watching This Morning.
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