Production Diary

Week One:
We recieved the assignment for the multi-cam production and read through what we had to do to complete this assignment. Then we were put into seperate groups of four to pick the rounds for our quiz show. We decided to do a celebrity round.

Our initial idea for our round was to have a 'question of sport' type layout, with 8 boxes, and something behind each box. We decided to have pictures of us dressed up as celebrities for four of the boxes, and questions for the other four.

We also decided what roles we would each have to perform throughout the pre-production stage.
I was incharge of content, which in theory is like the producer. I was incharge of what got put into the celebrity round and I also had to confirm with the other content managers for the other rounds what we were doing to make sure it didn't clash with anyone of them. I also had to check that the answers to the chosen questions were correct. We were also talked about how to use the multi-cam equipment, and we all got a turn on the camera's to help us work our heads around the way in which they worked in and also the differn't types of shots we could use.

Week 2:
The second week was pretty much confirming the rounds and how they were going to work. In the end we had to change our original idea for the celeb round from boxes to standard q&a questions as we believed that our idea would put to much pressure on the dvd operator on the live show. So instead of choosing boxes to reveal the question, the question would be read out. 2 pictures and 2 questions per team.

We then got started on creating the physical content, the stuff that was going to be seen. Tim helped us by taking pictures of me as Lady Gaga, Ana as Amy Winehouse, Josh as Jack Sparrow and we also went and brought a Mr Potato Head stripped the parts and took pictures of that.

We had too bring in ten questions on what we had learnt the week before to begin rehearsals. Everyone had a differn't role on the practical, some were sitting in for audience members, some where on the panel and there were also camera people, audio, vision mixing e.t.c This week I did audio assistant, which involved telling the FM through talk back about how things were going in the sound room and also calling for soundchecks.

We also came up for a name for the show, and called it Media Circus.

We also painted 7 boards magnolia. We used 7 boards because we wanted to create a 'circus tent'.

Week 3:
We managed to This week was mainly everyone chipping in and helping painting because we had seven boards to do we needed all the help we could get otherwise our set wouldn't be finished in time. Some people were off creating the VT inserts for their round and others just painted, watched it dry and painted it some more. I spent my time checking on Josh who was doing the VT inserts to check he was Ok and didn't need any help, and also by painting the set.

We kept rehearsing the practical side of the project all rotating roles so we got the hang of each differn't role, so in theory on the day of the live show we could be chucked anywhere and know what to do and how to handle any problems.


Week 4:
We had pretty much finished the set, there was just 2 boards left to paint and a few to touch up.
The script was still in the process of being written so we couldn't do any proper rehearsals. So we carried on as we had done before.

Week 5:
This was the last week, we managed to finish the set on the tuesday and the script was finally finished and in the right layout. We managed to grab a few rehearsals before the big show.

We also got to have a look at our Buzzers that had been made by Chris.

Then we recorded our show, amazingly after alot of faffing around editing the script and cue cards that morning we actually got stuck in and made a good show. For the first half of the live show I was the assistant director, which meant I had to tell the director what audio or VT inserts were coming up and how long before they did so.

In the second half I was the Audio Assistant, which in the second half of the show meant not doing much, but just keeping an eye on the levels of the contestants, buzzers and audience.