Thursday 15 February 2018

'AS LIVE' PRODUCTION: Changes to Steals of the Season (Segment 1)

As Steals of the Season is the biggest segment there is a lot of content involved and we need to keep it interesting for the audience. Over the past week, ideas for this segment have been changed and tweaked:

Steals of the Season - in studio

Katie and I have agreed the trends which will feature on screen and on the models. I did the research for the upcoming trends for S/S18 and we chose from the most common ones that came up on fashion websites / magazines:

Women

Trends of the week for catwalk:
- Summer plaid

Trends of the week for screen 
(will only use 3/4):
- Sheer clothing
- Trench coats – (can talk about how teddy coats have been big over winter but to watch the rise of trench coats)
- OTT earrings
- Pastel colours

Men

Trends of the week for catwalk:
- Floral prints – vintage colouring (deep reds and blues with silky creams and whites)

Trends of the week for screen 
(will only use 3/4):
- Baggy high waisted trousers – plaid or stripe patterns
- Velvet and satin
- Sportswear zip up turtlenecks
- Pattern mixing – presenters can joke that their grandad does this already so is accidentally fashionable

After agreeing with these trends for the show, Katie added full outfits with the trends and added up a rough price of what we would need to spend to make this studio section happen:



Katie's research - outfits and prices

TOTAL BUDGET: £146.88

Some of these items we can borrow from people, Katie already has the pastel trousers (these are one size so will fit any size model) which we can use, and Alex's friend has a few floral shirts which we can use - however, this is a good estimate for this section of the budget.



Steals of the Season - VT (clothing challenge)
The VT team had a meeting and thought about another way to film the Steals of the Season VT. To prevent repetitiveness and to create a smaller budget they came up with the idea of just having one presenter shopping for the other one. They could have a coin toss at the beginning to see who's going to shop for the other. When they're back in the studio, this way we might be able to have the other presenter wearing the outfit rather than having two mannequins but this does still mean a quick outfit change.

I think it will be worth having the fashion expert presenter going to shop for the other one because the expert will know more about fashion / what they're buying / why - because it's in fashion now / future fashion etc. 

New idea
Charity Shop Challenge:
One presenter sets the other presenter with a challenge of going into charity shops and trying to find these trends or similar in the independent shops.

Reason for a place in the show:
It is harder to find an on-trend or popular outfit in a charity shop (personally I don't shop in them because they contain weird / 'out there' and different clothes and I feel anything on sale in a high street store is in fashion at the time - no matter what the price). If I could find fashionable things in charity shops, I would go there to save money. I'm sure I am not the only person who thinks this, so this is the reason for featuring it in the show. It's also not following the mainstream which is the aim of the show.

In our 3rd production meeting, we agreed that the Steals of the Season VT needed more of a challenge - using charity shops will be the bigger challenge. The VT team have also lowered the budget to £20, because clothes are cheaper in charity shops, this also brings our overall budget down slightly.

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