It's all over, Rover.

Today, Anything TV made its debut. And so, the time has come for reflection.

The turnout was pretty low, but the general opinion amongst those who did make it seemed to be positive.I think that we certainly got our point across and managed to make people laugh while doing so, which is always a bonus. It's nice to know that other people find us funny and we're not just two losers laughing at our own jokes...

Having previously worked in a large group for Experimental Performance, we had found it difficult to organise meeting at times when everyone was available. Working in a pair, it was much easier to arrange meeting and therefore allowed us to spend more time bouncing ideas off of each other, rather than working alone and then bringing our individual research and ideas together. This also meant the workload was very evenly spread. In my experience, often in a large group some people will end up doing much more to contribute than others. Leigh being ill set us back a week, but this didn't seem to affect our project in the long term. Luckily we'd planned all our shots by that time, so the two days of shooting was the only thing that had to be set back.

The concept of "people will watch anything" was something which very much appealed to both of us. After being made to sit through "The Hills" one too many times, we decided we had to do something about it. And so, Anything TV was born. We chose to take familiar shows and formats people would recognise instantly (such as Big Brother, Deal Or No Deal and What Not To Wear) and create amusing parodies in an attempt to illustrate just how mindless most television programmes are today.

As I think I mentioned in my video blogs, I had used a Panasonic camera and iMovie before, so we didn't really have any problems during the shoot and edit. We managed to use only three different locations, and were able to make them look different by shooting in different rooms and from different angles. I think this saved us a lot of time because it meant the transition between sketches was very easy. Having a rough shooting schedule was also helpful, as mentioned in my previous post.

It may be hard to believe, but in fact the piece was largely unscripted. We had discussed what point we wanted to get across with each sketch as well as the infommercial sections, but found we actually worked better without the constraints of a written script. Sometimes the best jokes are spontaneous, and although it was potentially a gamble, we barely had to do any second takes.

I think that, if we had more time, we could have come up with some more ideas and produced a longer piece. Obviously we only had a limited amount of time, not only do to the project, but also as to how long the final piece should run for. As I mentioned in my video blog, I would also have been interested to see if we could have achieved a level of fame akin to that of Chris Crocker and lonelygirl15 over a sustained period of time. And who knows? Maybe we still could...