Connor Winfield TV production

We had another rehearsal day on Tuesday, which went very well. We had the talk back system again, plus we had a script this time, so we could get more of an idea of how the actual show is going to be set out. We made a mock set with tape on the floor and a seating area in a similar style that it will be in the show. We set up the cameras that we are going to be using, with two of them being on wheels for easy movement.  We had some trouble at the beginning due to a couple of the cameras not producing a picture in the gallery, but that was rectified. It turns out there was a problem with the cables connecting the camera to the gallery.  We had numerous run-throughs of parts of the show so that we could get a feeling of where our cameras would have to be, however this was difficult as we found that we were constantly forgetting about the audience seats. We tried to get around this problem by setting up some chairs and having people sit in them for a bit, which helped very much.

On this day, we had our first rehearsal for our live show, so that we could start to get a feel as to how the actual show is going to play out. We didn't use a script for this rehearsal, though, as we were mainly focusing on the roles that we are each going to be playing on the show, like cameraman, vision mixer and director. We were told that we needed to have a go at each of the roles in the team so that we understood what that role entails, and what can go wrong with it. This is so if there is a mistake made, we know how difficult the job can be.  My role on the studio floor is cameraman, so I was on one of the cameras for most of the day, as I wanted to get a feel for the types of shots that are going to be used for the live show. We also had talk back systems so we could communicate with the people in the gallery, such as the directors. This was really useful because if there was a problem with our camera, we could let the directors know about it immediately, and get it so