Tuesday 30 January 2018

'AS LIVE' PRODUCTION: Production Meeting 2

Today's task was for everyone to think of more ideas to add to the content of our show. We worked out the main / basic sections we wanted to include and set different production groups on the different sections:

Producers - Trends of the Week / Steals of the Season
Promo team - Plus size & vintage
VT team - Music influence and style & independent stores
Jack and Laura - Digging Through the Wardrobe Of...

A couple of things I came up with were changing the 'Trends of the Week' name to 'Steals of the Season' because fashion doesn't really go in weeks, it's more seasonal. This also means we can show and talk about Spring/Summer 2018 clothes which gives the chance for more fashion and information. I also said about the '1 Buy 4 Ways' page in Hello! fashion magazine which inspired us to take one piece of clothing and pair it two different ways - one for younger people and one for older - for both genders.



We had our second production meeting and heard from everyone's ideas into the different sections. Ideas we had included:


- Plus size doesn't need a section - simply get different sized models to show the clothes, plus size clothing has been done / there's shows out there which are specific for that

- Vintage - dad trainers, double denim, Peaky Blinders clothing (copyright) - flat caps coming back into fashion (good for studio)

- Talk to a celebrity - talk about their clothes and why they wear it - music section - pick out celebrities who are good for audience 16-50

- Churchill's 'siren suit' evolved into onesie / bodysuit - track it back to see if there's a story there for a VT / look into locations - Churchill's house?

- Aviation jacket in WW2 evolved into bomber jacket - taking an item of clothing and how it's changed over the ages

- New studio segment idea - fashion students and what they're producing now for the future of fashion

- Banning plastics - anyone working with plastics? changing into clothing / fashion rather than throwing away - up cycling

- Embarrassing wardrobe malfunctions / bad hair days / tattoos / old photos of bad outfits on the screen - audience participation- Unique jewellery - jewellery made out of knives and forks / scrabble pieces necklace

- Wardrobe segment - someone with a distinct style

- DIY segment - making your own clothes that look like a big brand but cheaper (VT)

- Making charity shop clothes trendy

- Presenters have a budget (e.g. £30) and have to by each other an outfit from high street stores - revealed in studio - voted upon a points basis / different outfit or challenge each week / look at what's been done before 

- Take presenters to an independent shop and do challenge / just talk to the owner of the shop - but what is so important about the store. They need to have a good story, but independent store is what our show is about - not dressing towards the mainstream

- Music segment - talk to a performer - what's the genre, what's their wardrobe like, what do they wear while performing Vs what do they wear on a regular day. Do they brand themselves differently way compared with how they choose to style themselves everyday? Would need a really differently dressed artist, e.g. heavy metal style, however, this is not the tone of our show



Once we had heard from everyone, myself, Katie, George, Jemma, Victoria and Gavin went away and starting narrowing down the sections:


Steals of the Season
One woman and one man
1 buy 2 ways - one for a younger and one for a more mature / older person - inspiration from "1 Buy 4 Ways" in Hello! Fashion magazine

VT - two presenters going and buying an outfit for each other with a budget e.g. £30
Research - how viable, can we get into the shops

Reveal outfit in the studio - chatty banter with each other / audience - compare budget
Bigger models - emphasise plus sizes


Vintage / thrifting / old to new
Churchill - Chartwell

Dressing through different eras 
Link in TV shows:
Peaky Blinders look - flat caps - research into  
Stranger Things fashion

Fun fact: Churchill siren suit (include as a small segment - how historical figures have influenced today's fashion)
VT - Vintage market in search of these clothing pieces / try to piece together an outfit around either one of the programmes or a certain era


Fashion fails (Audience participation)
Wardrobe malfunctions
Bad hair days
Online fails / triumph 
Expectation Vs reality


DIY / Independent stores
Etsy sellers - only online
Primark - not online

Educational 

VT - having a go at DIY clothing / could go and see an Etsy creator and learn how to make something

Music & style
How music influences fashion?
How celebrities influence style / how to achieve celeb looks for less


The next thing to do is to expand on these segments, especially the music & style and DIY / independent stores as these are the weakest sections. We also need an appropriate VT for Fashion Fails. We have said this to everyone and we are hoping to have more ideas on Thursday's production meeting (1st Feb).

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