The First Eviction

Friday 8^th June – First eviction – Live Office Runner

Call time: 12pm

Today was the first eviction. As usual I began my day by signing out my walkie and starting my office duties. Then the script run began. The printer was still not fixed and so we had to use the printer down in BOTS again. We managed to get the scripts out quicker but they were still not on time. We had loads of runners helping run them round to all the places they need to go to.

After the script run was done it was time to get back to my runner duties.

This week it was extremely windy and rainy and therefore we were told by health and safety that because of the weather conditions the set was unsafe for us to use tonight and therefore the first eviction had to take place on the Bit on the Side set. Brian presented the whole show from this set and instead of the evicted housemate walking down the stairs to the audience she was quickly carted off from the house to BOTS whilst the show was in the ad break.

Once the show had finished it was home time.

Launch Night

Tuesday 5^th June – Big Brother Launch Night – Live Office Runner

Call time: 11 am

Today was launch night. I was really excited to get stuck into the whole atmosphere of launch night. Once I got to the studios I signed out my walk and got to work with my office duties – signing out walkies, doing tea runs and changing bins.

Once I had done all of this it was time for the script run. As it was the launch night it was important that we got all of the schedules, scripts and camera cards out as soon as possible as they were needed for the meeting and rehearsals. Again the copiers kept jamming and we solved the problem my taking a load of paper and a copy of all of the documents down to the Big Brother Bit on the Side (BOTS) offices to use their printers. The script run still took us a long time but by using the printers in BOTS the time it took us to do it was minimized.

I then carried on with my office duties – getting dinner orders and going out to collect them, making sure the office table was stocked up with drinks and snacks for the crew to take as they signed out their walkies and collected their dinner vouchers.

At 9pm the show began and the girl on the early office shift had left. I began tidying up the office – sweeping, changing bins, shredding and putting snack away whilst being able to watch the show in the office.

Once the show had finished all of the crew and runners began making their way back to the Live office to sign walkies back in. Once all the walkies had been signed in it was time to go home.

My First Day on Big Brother

Thursday 31^st May – Tech Day – Live Office Runner

Call time: 10 am

Today was my first day working on Big Brother. This morning I was really excited about getting stuck into the job and meeting the people I was going to work with but at the same I was very anxious, this was a really big opportunity for me and I just didn’t want to mess it up. When I first got to Elstree Studios, after my long train journey, I went over to the Live cabin and this is where I began to meet the other runners and the rest of the production team I was going to be working with. We all signed out our assigned walkies and made our way over to the Reality cabin to get our security passes which we would use for the run of the show. We got taken into a runner meeting to run through what was expected of us and what each of our individual roles were. We then had a whole crew health and safety meeting on set and then we were taken outside for a tour of the site. When we arrived at the Big Brother set I couldn’t believe how small it was. It defiantly looked 10 times bigger on TV and it made me realise even more the magic of cameras.

My first task was to help with the script run. We had to print schedules, camera cards in different sizes and scripts. We had lots of problems with the photo copiers as they kept getting jammed and the script run ended up taking us 3 hours. As it was the tech day we didn’t worry about it too much but it is definitely something we need to solve for the first live show.

For the rest of the day I did various office runner jobs like tea runs, booking out walkies and giving out dinner vouchers. I also had to take dinner orders from the production team and go out and buy or order whatever they wanted. I had to get money from petty cash from Penelope and make sure that I kept all receipts.

Later on that evening I got the chance to be a stand in contestant and walk out of the orbit, down the catwalk posing for the cameras, get interviewed by Brian and walk up the stairs to the house. This was like a dream come true as I had been a massive fan of Big Brother when I was young age. As there is going to be a twist on launch night I also had to be a stand in for that. All of the stand in contestants were sat on chairs behind the orbit with blind folds on, blankets over our heads and sound cancelling head phones on to see what we were aware of so that they knew what the contestants were going to be able to hear and see.

After this cars were called and it was time for us to head home.

I had a really good first day, everyone seems really nice and I just can’t wait for Tuesday for the show to actually start.

The First and Only Unsigned Live

Heres the first and only Unsigned Live episode. We all worked really hard in our individual roles.

What I Have Learnt from doing AS Live

I have learnt a lot from doing this AS Live project. I have learnt that when producing a VT I need to produce a good solid shooting script which makes sense and tells the viewer everything they need to know in 1"30. I need to make sure that I get as much useful footage as I can so that I have enough GVs to cover my edit.

I have also learnt that even though I enjoyed the experience of being the Vision Mixer in the gallery I have realised that this is a very stressful job and I would much rather be on the floor with the talent and the action. On the day I had a lot of fun with it and tried my very hardest to do the best I could and I hope that I did a good enough job to make the show look amazing.

AS Live VT: Editing Continued

Today we have added the footage from last night and begun editing again. The VT has changed from being a gig guide to a VT about the Maidstone Fringe Festival. The whole thing is cutting together nicely but we are running a bit over time and finding it hard to cut it down. We will try our best to get it to time but if we can't then we will have to ask Lauren' the producer, if we can have some more time.

AS Live VT: Helen's Oppinion

Today we showed our edit to Helen and she gave some very constructive criticism. She told us how she thought the VT should be laid out and gave us some advice for future shoots such as the subjects need to be set up and so we need to get a sequence to show who the subject is before we start seeing them speak/ interview them.

We are re-shooting a few things tonight and hopefully what we film will change our VT and make it a better.