At the beginning at the episode is the two presenters Lucy Alexander and Martin Roberts, Since this show has been going on for so long the presenters are some what famous so there is no need to introduce themselves just a Caption underneath them. The presenters give us a brief summary of today's show where they describe what is going to happen and to begin their show the say homes under the hammer and the show begins.
The opening sequence is small house cardboard house and small shots of money, some of the images on the notes they have animated just to give an effect of counting money. the small model homes have different note projected on them to symbolise the prices of each model home.
At the beginning where they take you to the first house they don't just take to straight to the house it self the explore the area around it give you some information about the area and shows you some of the nice scenery around the area to help give the viewer more understanding on why this house is on auction. As the presenter describes the house he's looking at and observing the keep factors of the house or a vital flaw in the house for this case the hole in the ceiling, they played a song that has something to do with a hole. the music is not just random it give a mood/ feeling to the house which shows the severity in this case of the flaw in the house, which really sets the mise en scene of the whole house and the area. The presenter gives you his honest opinion on the house and tell you information of the house and what needs to be done to the house to make it the perfect home. They also get a retail estate agent to come and take a look at the house to price it up and give future prices of the house when it is fully furnished and how much it could be rented for as a holiday and rental home. After they have done all of that they then go see how the auction went for the house, when it is finished they then go and see the winners of the auction to see what the have planned and in stored for their future home.
After they then come back to the house to see what has been done in the short period of time after they bought the house to see what renovations have been made to the house to see if the buyer stuck to his/ her word or how long still it may take to finish all the furnishing.
The camera angles used the show the full potential of the house is amazing to show how big and grand the house is they will use relatively low camera angles to show home dominate the house is, they will use big pans to show how big a room is both horizontal and vertical, and also give hand held/ eye level shots to give the view the feel as if they were there and looking at the house themselves. There is a multitude of camera angles that are used to view the home which is used.
