Project Diary

First Week

In the first week we were organised into our production teams, in my team were George, Lucy and Marc, Marc wasn't there for the first week so we decided the roles that we wanted, I was Content Producer, which means i made sure everything got done in my group, George was The Technical/Editing Man, and Lucy was Art Director. Marc unfortunately never really got involved so George did his job, which was fine and he wasa good at it.
We then decided what round we wanted; I, originally, wanted the Celebrity Round and Lucy wanted the Music Round, we then ended up with The Quickfire Round, which was fine.
We decided to do 20 questions each, I did mine surrounding Celebrities, George did his about Film and TV and Lucy did hers about Music.
We also had decided on an overall title for out show which was Media Circus, which we were all fine with.

Second Week

During the Second week, because i was waiting for Lucy to be done with her questions, as George and I had finished with them, and there no VT's to sort out in our round, i decided to help with the painting of the set, Which was good.
Once we had actually found the appropriate amount of paint, thanks to Kate's large tub of Magnolia, we got started. We decided on doing Seven Boards instead of the 5 that the Other Groups had done, because we thought there set's looked a bit small, I also pestered everyone into getting a bigger table, which i got, which was good.
Now On Wednesday's we actually got some time to use some of the equipment, as we'd brought in 10 questions each and we took it in turns to be different people, well in reality we rotated only a few times but it helped everyone get a gist of things.

Third Week

I can't really remember much about the third week, so i'm guessing we practically just did painting, but we were still way ahead of where the other groups were at this point, me and sophie were basically finished with the Dialogue parts of the script, so that was good. And On Wednesday it was the Norwich Trip, In which I sat in Costa with Sophie to plan our radio show,
Nothing out of the ordinary happened during this week, apart from we had Peter's usual lesson on a Thursday instead of Wednesday, we were still doing our tiny ten question quizzes, which was benificial.

Fourth Week

I think that the fourth week was quite productive, as by the end of it, the set was basically finished and I'd pestered everybody sufficiently about the big table and by the Thursday we had it, In Peter's Lesson, we were practicing the last group's Quiz Show, just to get a feel for what it'd be like. And Kate was pestering me to do the script, but i was having issues as i really didn't know how to, so i went to see Peter, who basically did the first sheet while i was watching which was actually really helpful as suddenly it all clicked into place and I understood what it all meant. We also then decided that we needed more rehearsal time on the Tuesday, and i was to Email Peter the finished script on the Monday Evening.

Fifth Week

I enjoyed this last week alot, I was stressed off my feet, but it was the good stress that made me do things, not the bad panicky stress that makes you die inside. On the Monday, I drunk too much caffeine so i was in an odd mood, however this helped as Me and Hannah were to do the Script, and from 10 o'clock until about half 2 we sat in the Library and Digital Suite and wrote it, Hannah replaced Sophie, as Sophie wasn't there that Day, but my god i am glad Hannah helped me as she kept me sane and laughing, and by 3 o'clock on Monday I emailed Peter the 19 page finished script.
On the Tuesday, we basically ran through the whole thing, The Quickfire round needed a lot of reJigging as Originally we were going to have Ducks with the Categories and Fishing Rods and it looked so good written down, but in practice it was awful, I also had a few bits to re do in the script concerning Track Numbers. and i also had to Redo the Cue Cards as They had the wrong script on them, so i went home and Mother helped me rip off the old script, i also re wrote the script and emailed it to Peter. I then also wrote down all 60 questions for the quickfire round to stick to the cards on the next day
Now Wednesday was the day of the actual recording, and i was in mega stress, as i was all a bit unorganised, as i didn't think it would take so long. I came in at half 9, as i had to write the Dialogue bit of the script out and stick it to the cards, which actually took the best bit of 2 hours, and i was in a crazy state byu then as i thought it'd take about half an hour, I finally finished the cue cards, but not the Quickfire round, and i was doing this all on my own. Peter came in all like "Where's the script?!" and i was like AHH i emailed it to you last night, and i printed off a copy that Sophie had gave to him in the morning, but he said that he couldnt use this as it was double sided, i think John Dempsey could see how stressed i was and told Peter that he'd Photocopy from it a few scripts, which i was so thanful for, as i must have forgotten that he'd asked me to do this. By 1 oclock i had finished the quickfire round cards, and then i new it was going to be alright, because as a group we all knew what we had to do really.
After a few rehearsals in the afternoon we were ready to go, I was Assistant Floor Manager in the first half, which basically i was doing scores, but after a hectic morning i was glad of something so menial, and i was Floor Manager in the second, which again was basically no work, as sophie was a brilliant host and we'd all rehearsed it so much everyone knew everything anyway, Also the audience kind of applaused when they needed too anyway so i didn't even have that to do, all i did was basically make sure Marc wrote down the right scores and tell Sophie when the 60 seconds were up for the Quickfire round, which actually worked so much better in it's new more Mastermind-ish type set up as opposed to its idiot predecessor version.
And after that it was fine.