We didn't need the presenters to rehearse for a little while, and so Steff asked me if she could go and sort something out for her group, and so I told her she could as long as she was back within five to ten minutes to be there for a short run through of the script. We also decided to change Joe and Maddie's roles around, as Joe seemed to be helping more with the lighting than Maddie was, and so she is now the runner whilst Joe helps Josh out to set up the lighting.
As all this was being set up, I approached Connor and asked for a script, and he had wrote a 'technical script', as he called it, with information about the lighting/VT clips that the presenters did not need on their scripts, as it would confuse them. So I sat with him for a little while and ran through what we needed for todays session, and helped him to quickly rewrite part of the script - extending the introduction of the show to more than only a couple of lines - and including a discussion part between the two main presenters which would feature after one of the VT clips, and they would discuss it with a few set questions to get the conversation rolling. I asked him to print it out three times - two for the presenters to have one each, and one for me to keep ahold of - and the process took a while longer than I expected it too, and instead of there being three, there was only one, and three 'technical scripts' instead, which meant that there was only one that the two presenters had to share, and none for me to show other people to explain how we wanted things to run, camera/lighting/vision mixing-wise.
We also tried to get the introduction to the show which Connor had made at home imported onto the tricaster, although we soon discovered that it had to be in the .avi format, and the clip wasn't, and so we were unable to play it through the screens and include it in the show and had to leave it until the next rehearsal that we will have - which will be after the half term.
By this point, we were extremely close to the end of our rehearsal session. I wanted to quickly have a run through of the parts of the script that we had (the introduction and the discussion) but after re-explaining to the presenters and the camera operators what we were planning to happen after they had heard differently from Connor, we had run out of time and needed to switch groups so that everyone would have an equal amount of time to rehearse their news shows.
The floor plan/set layout stayed the same from the first rehearsal we did, and we doubt that this will change now, but the new, updated cast/crew list is as follows:
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: Joe.
Camera 1: Chloe Pearce.
Camera 2: Lesley Cross.
Camera 3: Rory
Presenter 1: Steff Preston.
Presenter 2: Chris.
Runner: Corey.
Runner: Maddie.
For the second rehearsal, which was Deanna and Joe's group, I was still camera operator three from where I had taken over from Jemma one week where she wasn't in. They wanted the camera pointed at the main desk where the two presenters sat, zoomed in quite close to be able to only see part of the desk and both of the presenters, and so for around half of the rehearsal that was how the camera was positioned.
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However, for the second half of the rehearsal, they decided that they would rather have it zoomed out a bit more, so that the desk and the two presenters where on the right third of the screen and you could see the red seats and part of the set to the left of them instead, and so I moved it to be positioned like it.
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For the last two groups I was a runner both times. I wandered around asking people if they needed any help with anything for a while, although most of things were done. It was mainly taping wires down to the floor to make sure no one tripped over after the cameras/microphones had been moved to their correct positions, and occasionally passing messages on to people/fetching different things for the production crew. After all this was done, and there was nothing left to do, I asked the production crews if I could work on making notes for this blog on the lessons of the day and they said that I could, and so I kept on set, but slightly out of the way in case they still needed me to do something and began to write up the events of the day's lessons on my phone, keeping quiet during their run-throughs.
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