Studio Idea

Personally, I found it really difficult to come up with an interesting studio production idea. But because "one idea is not enough"(Brown and Duthie, 2010) I came up with 3 initial ideas:

1) Guess the song type of game show, but instead of guessing pop songs, the contestants would have to guess classical music. I got this idea from a game my friends and I loved to play and the way my music teacher used to test my class. 

2) Travel guide about how to make the most of your trip, places worth visiting and places that are overrated and not worth your time. I got this idea from my sister who travels a lot and from the way she does loads of research about each and every place she visits.

3) Debate/Game show where 2 groups of people debate about nerdy topics ( whats better Marvel or DC, which Doctor was the best etc.). The idea comes from noticing how much rivalry there is between comic book lovers and overall 'nerds'. I feel like this idea is the strongest as I can imagine how the set would look like (in pop art style).

 As the idea of the show is not only about comic books the set could contain lots of different bits from nerdy shows and films as to avoid any copyright.

The teams would be given challenges before the show (VTs) for example get a costume in Poundland or a charity shop on a budget, the audience then can judge who did it better and the winning team is awarded points.
And just for the fun of it, a third game could be the cosplayers doing aerobics (like from the old fitness videos), because who wouldn't like to see a budget Iron Man and Batman dancing to generic 80s workout music. The winner is the one who's costume doesn't break/rip/fall apart.

It is important that the show would be relevant to current affairs (Brown and Duthie, 2010) and I personally think that neardy fights over which is better Marvel or DC or which spiderman was a better spiderman, which doctor was the better one, there's also people who believe that Star Wars prequels were good and should be as valid as the other parts. The possibilities are pretty much endless for this and it will always be relevant for a certain audience. Which brings me to the said audience - neardy people! People who are obsessed with comic books, films/tv shows based on them or sci-fi films/tv shows. Being one of those neardy people I feel like I can understand the target audience better as it is crucial for the idea to work well (Brown and Duthie, 2010). I believe that the show would suit the audience that tunes in to BBC 2 for Robot Wars on Sundays so it could go after at 9 p.m.

Bibliography:

Brown, L. and Duthie, L. (2010). The TV studio production handbook. London: I.B. Tauris.

ILLUSTRATIONS:

(1) Lichtenstein, R. (1963). Girl. [lithograph on paper].

(2) Gallery La Fayette - Oil Paintings & Portraits. (n.d.). Pop Art & Op Art - Original ART. [online] Available at: https://www.gallerylafayette.com/product/pop-art/ [Accessed 9 Jan. 2019].