Reheasals, Recording practise and Technical reheasals

Before we recorded the show live, we did plenty of reheasals. for these rehearsals we each performed the roles we had requested as well as taking turns to be guests and then ran through the show. Doing the reheasals i took role as a camera man, i cycled through each camera and mastered the shots i had to deliver. It was important to do these rehearsals to work out if there were any techincal problems or anything wrong with our questions. From doing reheasals we found that some of the questions were to easy, so we set off to make them more challenging. We also had to decide whether it was going to be possible to have buzzers in our quiz show. Recording practice allowed us to work effectively together as a group. It definately gave us more confidence knowing that our show would work. Although, at first it did not seem that way.

From technical rehearsals we learned that our buzzers sounded too similar, so we had to find an alternative for one of the buzzers. we were originally using two dog toy squeekers as our buzzers. so we replaced one of the toys with a bell. Another problem we had to deal with was that the VTs were not in the correct order on the DVD, as a consequence this meant that we had to edit our script and our running order. Despite this we also found benefit from technical reheasals as they helped us improve our skills as camera crew by constantly reframing and changing from camera shots. It also helped us adjust the sound levels so that they were just right and let us practise on when to cut from the VT inserts back to the studio. Without the reheasals we did, our show definately would not have turned out as successful as it did in the LIVE shoot.