Pitch

Our news package is based on the relationship between students of different courses in the Manchester College. The idea came about when we started working with music students from another campus of The Manchester College. Organised by our tutors, media and music students we’re asked to work together, having the music students perform for the media students to record. What I found unique about the relationship was the skills it was able to provide for both courses. 

 

Here is why I think our package will work. After speaking to some of the musicians, I realised how it would give the students on both courses an opportunity to recreate a situation that is very common in both the music and media industry. It is crucial for music and television to work together and create a symbiotic relationship, as the finished product can be mutually beneficial. The students on the music course were noting how they felt under pressure whilst performing in front of camera; and the media students felt under equal, but different, pressures when they had to act professional in front of the performers. These pressures force a steep learning curve on both sides of the production and shows how students from different courses can get together and learn, despite working on separate projects - which I think should be encouraged across students of all walks of life, not only in the Manchester College. I think our idea will be unique in the way that it is self documentation, and shows how the work we do in class can be taken to the next step by taking great interest in college projects, wanting to learn more about the assignments we have been set.

 

Our aim is to record both sets of students working together, seeing how they reacted to working in a foreign environment, what problems they faced and the lessons they learnt from the whole experience. Aside from the work we have to do filming the musicians performing as part of our course, we will aim to film both sets of students preparing for the collaboration, during the performance, and their reactions after the experiences. We will splice this footage together and use it in 2 short VTs, where we cut between the two courses working together and interviews of the performers and crew. These VTs will be run in the middle of our live broadcast, in which we will have further interviews of the students and the possibility of a live performance by the musicians, to give an example of how we worked together throughout the process.