This afternoon was the other two groups' turn to rehearse, which included my group. At first, it was Chloe and Lesley's group, in which I am a runner. At first, I helped out with random odd jobs such as taping wires down to the floor to avoid people tripping up, for example, but then they needed someone to step in for a presenter role as Deanna wasn't in, so I said I would.
Most of the time I simply had to sit around where Deanna would have sat, participate in sound/lighting/camera checks and read out their current script alongside Chris who is the other presenter when everything was ready to do so. I felt slightly uncomfortable sitting in front of so many cameras, but I didn't mind so much today seeing as I knew that nothing was final and it wasn't being recorded, however I did say I wouldn't mind stepping into the role again just in case it happens again and one of the presenters aren't in for some reason or another.
[PICTURES ARE TO COME.]
During the second half of the lesson, it was my group's turn to rehearse. Things were running smoothly at first, and we got the set layout sorted and figured out, as well as considering things such as the blue screen for a virtual studio during one of the shots that we may use. The set layout didn't really change at all, and things were sorted pretty quickly.
As we came to rehearse properly, however, we felt as though there wasn't enough on the script to work with. We tried talking to Connor, who was our script writer, however he seemed to feel that the script was enough, and we tried to rehearse with what we had but it didn't work out properly and the hour and a half rehearsal didn't quite go to plan.
Before the next time we rehearse, we're planning on properly talking to each other and helping to write the script if he is struggling to think of what to put, and also we'll make sure that we have at least one VT clip to try and test out how that would run and look during the news show, and also give the presenters and crew a chance to see how things will need to be adjusted during that short space of time to be able to cut straight back into the studio in a decently looking way.
I completely forgot to take pictures of the set layout during the second half of the lesson, although the set barely changed from the original design we came up with before and so there's not much of a problem with it.
We also changed a few of the job roles round in the lesson, the new list is:
Producer: Nicola Sinclair.
Director: Jemma Land.
Floor Manager: David Neale.
Script Writer: Connor Sadler.
Art Director: Ashley Hodges.
Vision Mixer: Ellis
Sound 1: Frankie
Sound 2: Deanna
Lighting: Joshua Bates.
Lighting 2: Maddie
Camera 1: Chloe Pearce.
Camera 2: Lesley Cross.
Camera 3: Rory
Presenter 1: Steff Preston.
Presenter 2: Chris.
Runner: Corey.
Runner: Joe
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