Friday 8th March
Today was the big day, in which we finally got to film our live show. The day started off with everyone arriving at college and meeting in the classroom to discuss some final things through. After this discussion, everyone except the floor manager and I, left to go the studio the start setting everything up and finalising all of the set design.
While the rest of the crew was doing that, the floor manager and I started printing all of the necessary paperwork off, such as the risk assessment, 6 copies of the script for all of the crew members and the call sheets. This took us a while to do as we had some technical difficulties with the printer, however we resolved the issue and managed to print everything successfully. After printing everything off, we went back to the classroom to finish off editing the In The Spotlight VT. Once that was saved in the VT folder ready for access to the other crew members, we made our way to the studio with all of the paperwork, ready to give to the crew. Once we arrived there, everything was set up and it finally looked professional and ready for use. Everything was beginning to come together. All of the lights were set up in addition to the cameras and the rest of the equipment. We decided to give the show a quick rehearsal by using two of the crew members just to read off of the script, this gave us an idea of what it was going to be like once the presenters had gotten to the studio.
After doing this mini rehearsal, we had a quick lunch break and then went straight back up to the studio afterwards. The presenters arrived about 10 minutes after the lunch break, to start off proper rehearsals of the show. We ran through the full show about 2-3 times before taking Callie and Redmond to get their makeup done, to get ready to film the show properly.
Once we got to the studio, everything and everyone was ready to film. We filmed the final take of the show and everything went very smooth and professionally. Every member of the crew fulfilled their roles meaning that the show was a success which was something we were all worried about it not being.
It was a very big relief after we wrapped up, knowing that the show went well!
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