Pre Production

The group was split into groups of 4 or 5 to create a round for the quiz show with 4 roles needed to be done, they were:

- Content/Round Producer - Responsible for producing a scripts and questions for your groups round.
- Post-Production Producer - Creating inserts to be used within the round e.g. DVD clips and images.
- Art Director - Help design and create the set using props, paint etc while helping out with the other Art Directors.
- Technical Producer - Have to make sure everything the group comes up with is technically possible and how it is done.

I was chosen to be a member of the Quickfire round which was the only group with 5 members along with Reece, Steph, Sharni and Amy. My role was to be the Content Producer, which i felt i did a very helpful job on helping to come up with a script for our round, the quick fire round, which needed the most questions out of all the rounds and we managed to come up with more than enough. Me and Reece also came up with other ideas for the rounds scripts including lighting and sound effects, the original idea was to have the lights dimmed with heartbeat audio track being played to create the nervous, tence atomosphere we wanted as our round was the final, deciding one. However, on the day we could not use the heartbeat audio track as the CD made with it did not work on the DVD player in the audio room and we did not have enough time to fix the problem. Me and Reece also created the Cue cards with the questions for the host to use during the show, we designed them making them a rectangle shape big enough for a couple questions and with the logo on the other side. We used the gillotine to cut out lots of card rectangles and logos and glued all the logos onto the cards and then i laminated them in the correct order. Our rounds script and questions were all completed and so were the cue cards with no problems so me and Reece took it upon ourselves too help out with other responsibilities within the entire group, we helped paint the set for a couple of days sacrificing some of my clothes and moved around the set all through out the production of the set. We also took the job of finding someone to be the host in the show so went to performing arts to find an ideal person for the job and we managed to find Sam who was happy to do it. We then helped erect the finished set in the studio by placing it and screwing it all together before checking everything was safe and secure, we also helped strike it. Whilst all this was happening, as a group we were being taught theory and being helped out in different sessions with Jon Sayward, Jon Dempsey, Kate Flurry and Peter Craven which was very helpful collecting information we needed to make the show run as smoothly as possible. On Wednesdays we had technical sessions with Peter, who was very helpful throughout the making of the show, as we had some time to work with the equipment doing run throughs and rotations to get some practice and experiance before the real show arrived and it helped showing gradual improvment from the group every week. As we started to draw closer to the real show we started to have some rehearsals and the date of the show was set back a week which gave us some needed time to get everything ready. I myself was getting some practice in with the equipment, particually the sound desk which i found helpful and i filled in as the talent on a couple of occasions which i was happy to do.