Broadcast Day 1

Arrived early in the morning and had received the final script. I had already annotated the other version of the script so i spent most of my morning changing all the annotations. After hearing yesterday that i had to create a 2 news show for day two. This slightly put more pressure on. But i wasn't going to worry about that until tomorrow. i felt like i dealt with the morning quite badly and i learnt that i get too stressed to easily. But ill be honest, i didn't really feel that prepared as i didn't have a huge picture on what to expect. Once we started things began to flow and i started to understand about how Transmission take from the studio and how they give back. I learnt that when we are going out to studio, transmission takes us with a bumper and when we are coming back from transmission, the studio takes them with a bumper. Unfortunately on my day when i was directing there wasn't any live shows which i would have liked for the challenge but i also appreciate not having a live show as dealing with the manic. A few things went wrong and this is lead to lack of presenters rehearsing. In between shows we began to rehearse the next scene/ link with the presenters but as the day went on, it wore off. This was a bad mistake and looking back ,you can realise this. If i could go back, i would have spent the times where the shows were playing to make sure that they rehearse their next lines and so i can then learn from them with the camera shots. At the end of the day, i had to go on set for the Flash mob interview. I had a 5 second look at the interview questions and just went along with it. Also once the news was on, i tried to make it comical by just doing silly things to Matt and acting like a complete idiot, but everybody in the studio was laughing so i felt like i pulled it off. and i killed time too because that was another thing i noticed the fact that we had to fill 2 hours of studio time. This is probably lead to not having a rehearsal to find out how long we have to fill and in rehearsal this could have been corrected.
So overall today it went well, i feel like i didn't do a bad job. i believe that i was firm but fair. And i know i try to do everything myself rather than using the people i have such as P.A and floor manager. I now understand the importance of the bumpers and how the P.A and Transmission need to use communications to know the timings. We also realised that communications was an issue on the day. When talking over communications, people tend to shout, talk over each other and trying to have a conversation with more than one person also tends to happen. i know that i do shout, but this is to get my message across as my role is probably one of the most important. Its also hard to talk to everybody and answer every bodies question at the same time. Overall the team worked well together and I'm looking forward to the next day.