'As live' Studio production: Rehearsal day 5

During this rehearsal, we had the presenters in so that they could get a sense of what the show is going to be like, and to help them visualise what is going to be happening in the show. We had also bought a mannequin for the show, which I was in charge of.

By this rehearsal, everyone was becoming very comfortable in their roles, and we were all working well in our teams, which for the camera operators was having a camera assistant, and then swap roles half way through the show.

This rehearsal ran very smoothly, and we managed to make it through the whole show without stopping, although we needed to be a bit more sudden with our timings between the segments, and we need to be a little bit quicker when we reposition the cameras.

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