Work Experience at TwoFour

Tuesday 10th March 2009

Today I was asked to follow a voice-over script for the programme ‘Design for Life’, which is a programme on the similar lines of The Apprentice however it’s twelve people all competing for a six-month contract to work in Paris along side top designer Philippe Starck.



My task was to follow the script through amending any errors or changes that may occur. Although I was doing a similar thing to the previous day, I found this a little more interesting because I got to watch the finished programme rather than the footage tapes and to be honest it was a lot easier to transcribe.

Throughout the day a few production assistants on another project ‘Gutted’ were researching, selecting contributors and interviewing them over the phone to find out whether they would be suitable contributors for the upcoming programme. It was interesting to see certain reasons why they chose particular contributors – E.g. How unusual they were, the location they lived in, how much ‘junk’ they had; all because it helped make good, entertaining T.V.




(Gutted will help launch UKTV's new Home channel.)




Although I didn’t help out on this, it was really good to see the process of their planning for the programme. (The pre-production stage, something I had yet to see until now.)


I was surprised how long amending the voice-over script ‘Design for Life’ took, by the end of the day I was only just past the half way mark. I think this was down to having to alter all the interviewee answers to match what they actually say in the programme.

Wednesday 11th March 2009

Today I was asked to finish amending the script for ‘Design for Life’. Again because of the interviewee answers it took me a couple of hours to finish and to be honest I was quite glad when it was over, just because I got fed up watching the same programme. I personally wanted to do something else other than transcribing and logging however this wasn’t the case after I finished ‘Design for Life’ I was asked to log and transcribe some more of the BBC ‘On thin Ice’ and this is what I spent the rest of the day doing! After a while I did find this slightly boring, I personally wanted to see more of how the company run and other departments to give me more of an insight of what TwoFour does and how the industry works. However I guess with it being a ‘real’ production everyone is really busy and you just need to help out with what needs doing at the time.



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