My Summer So Far...

This summer I have been fortunate enough to work on the Live Big Brother shows. I am an office runner and so my duties are making sure everyone has a copy of the script, running order and camera script as well as making sure everyone in the office and on set are fed and watered at all times. I am also in charge of signing talkbacks in and out. I have learnt alot about how the show works already and have met some really good people.

I have also spent the day with a man called Stephen Ellis who is a freelance editor. I spent the day with him at a post production house in Soho to see what he does and what he was working on. The documentary he was working on was about a story I had seen in the newspaper a couple of months ago. It was the story about a girl who dressed up and pretended to be a boy to seduce her 2 best friends. I found this story really interesting when I read it in the newspaper and when I found out that was what the documentary was about I was really excited and intrigued to find out the whole story. The week before I went to see Stephen he had watched through all the footage and had started to fit the pieces together so that when I got there we watched through everything he had pieced together and we started to build a story together. He kept me quite involved asking me what I thought of each section and characters and if I understood what was going on. I really enjoyed spending the day with Stephen I was able to learn alot more about documentaries and was able to see how Avid software works and how you edit with it. I was also really lucky that the documentary was on a subject which I was interested in and I can't wait to see the final product on Channel 4.

Another thing I have been doing this summer is developing mine and Maddie's major project idea. We have had a couple of production meetings and the idea is really coming together now. We have been developing this idea before we even came to uni. We have always been fascinated by twins and in the beginning we wanted to make a show were we fight twins against each other in physical and mental challenges to see who the better twin is. We were going to use this idea for our AS Live project but when we found out we couldn't work together we decided neither of us were allowed to use the idea for this project and we would leave it for our major project. We have developed the idea and have decided to change it into a light hearted documentary series where we will interview the twins and set them a simple challenge to compete in. We have began blogging, writing down all our ideas, research and casting avenues we have been down.
http://twinniesdoc.blogspot.co.uk/

Big Bro Another Eviction Night

Friday 6^th July – Eviction – Live Office Runner

Call time: 9:30am

Today I was on the early shift office runner so I arrived at the studios nice and early and as soon as I got there I began my office duties as normal.

It was then time for the script run. We had new printers in which didn’t jam and Katie (the head office runner) had already printed out the schedules, camera cards and running orders the night before, so all we had to do for the meeting was the scripts. We managed to get these out to where they needed to be within 20 minutes. The scripts were read as usual in the morning script meeting and changes were made so we had to do the final script run with the new changed script.

Today I had to help Bonita (the researcher) with sorting out the prompt cards for the rehearsal. We had to make sure the script on the prompt cards was exactly the same as the main script, print out each bit of the script on stickers and then stick them on the back of the prompt cards. The prompt cards were needed in the rehearsal and so if there was any changes made we had to quickly re print the relevant card and run it over to set.

I continued my normal office duties and then it was time for my long train journey home.