CCi Live Practice

On Thursday we had our first studio practice for the CCi Live show which would be broadcasted on 14th December. We had booked out the studio between 12:00 and 3:00. We decided on studio roles, and I assumed the role of production assistant again.

We were told that we had all the content, however one insert had not been cleared and the production group were unsure if it is usable or not. Once we were in the studio we got everything set up and ready. I had a look over the running order and then finalised the credits as the delivering team roles had not been put in and the formatting was not brilliant.

When we ran through the show we discovered quite a few issues. Firstly the script wasn’t great. There were certain parts that didn’t make sense or didn’t sound very good, there were several spelling mistakes, the website URL’s had been left in which confused the presenters and meant it didn’t flow as well, and one of the presenters names on the autocue changed halfway through. The timings of the show were also not that great as they were inaccurate and there were a lot of adlibbing sections which can make the timings hard to judge. The videos also had no real handles, so some of them had to be ended slightly before their end duration otherwise we would have been left with a freeze frame. Finally, the studio script and the autocue script were not the same version, which caused confusion for us.

Towards the end of the run through, the show started to fall apart due to these issues, which was very frustrating for us as a group. We spoke to the production group to try and sort these problems out, and they said they would provide us with a new script. When we looked over this new script, nothing had in fact changed. We didn’t get a newer script in time for us to work with so we did not manage to run through the show again. This studio practice was very frustrating for us as a group as we did not manage to get that much out of it due to reasons beyond our control.