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THE BIG BROTHER HOUSE
• The original Big Brother House was based in Three Mills Studio in Bow, East London.
• Since 2003, Big Brother has been based in a compound in Elstree Studios, just north of London
CAMERAS IN THE BIG BROTHER HOUSE
• On Series One, BB had 13 x Robotic Cameras (the ones that move and are dome shaped) and 10 Fixed Cameras.
• The last few series increased the cameras and are now 22 x Robotic Cameras and 14 x Fixed.There is also a camera run that is situated around the house areas and there are five cameras that are studio cameras on pedestals and point through the two way mirrors.
PRODUCTION STAFF HIERARCHY
• Senior Team• Creative Director • 2 x Exec Producers• 2 x Series Editor• The current creative director of Big Brother is
Philip Edgar Jones, also Creative Director of Brighter Pictures
REALITY TEAM
• 4 x Senior Producers• 10 x Reality/Story Producers• Reality producers do both day producing and
story producing, depending on what shift they're on
THE TASKS
• Two main kind of tasks: Shopping Tasks and Saturday Tasks
• Shopping Tasks go towards food – contestants are given a basic budget of £1 a day for food. This increases to £4 each if they win a task
• Saturday Tasks used to bring out a particular dynamic in the group – more “conceptual”
THE TASK TEAM• Senior Task Producer x 1• Task Producers x 3• Task Assistant Producers x 3• Task Researchers x 3• Task Runners x 3• Task Art Directors x 2• Art Assistants x 2• Chippies, painters, prop makers etc x 4
THE CARE TEAM
• This team looks after the well being of the Housemates, and liaise with their families and friends during evictions. They deal with any problems with Housemates – in association with the Psychologist and the Series Eds and Execs
STRUCTURE OF THE CARE TEAM
• Senior Care Producer x 1•
Care Producer x 1• • Care AP x 1• • Care Researcher x 1
RACISM
• Ofcom's severe criticism of Channel 4 singled out three occasions the broadcaster failed to "handle the situation appropriately and contextualise".
• The first was when Goody referred to Shetty as "Shilpa Poppadom"; the second was Lloyd saying she wished the Indian actress would "f*** off home"; the third was derogatory comments about Indian eating habits, poverty, starvation, illness and being stick-thin during an argument over Shetty producing a dish of under-cooked chicken for housemates to eat.
SUMMARY• Big Brother has run on British TV since 2000• It has generated vast amounts of money for both Channel 4 (the
broadcaster) and Endemol (who own the format)• It relies on state of the art cameras and hundreds of staff• It has been a talking point for nearly 10 years• At its peak, over a 100,000 people a year auditioned to go on the show• Viewing figures peaked at around 10 million and now have slumped to
around 2m• 2010 sees the end of Big Brother on Channel 4 but there is always a
possibility it could reappear on another channel
PRODUCTION TEAM• 4x Exec Producers• 1x Series Producer• 2x Producers• 8 x P/Ds• 2x A/Ps• 4x Researcher• 1x Production Manager• 1x Production Coordinator• 2x Production Secretary• 10x runners - this changes during different stages of the auditions
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