Effcient Rehearsal and Recording Practice

Before we even started rehearsals we had a couple of lessons getting used to the equipment and how to use it, plus we also learnt some of the langauge which is used in a TV studio, for example if you are a camera operations then if you move the camera right or left this is called a crab, another example is if you turned the camera right or left this would be called a pan. There are many TV studio production terms and all are vital so that people know what you are talking about. We also had a couple of lessons learning about the way in which the video and audio was connected through the studio and into the vision and audio control room.

During the 5 weeks which we have been doing this project we have been practicing a lot, as if we do not practice then our final Live TV recording will not be very good. The first practice we had was about 2 weeks before the actual recording, people got given roles as a practice to see how things went. On the first rehearsal i got given the role of a cable basher, lots of people say that this is a boring job but i disagreed as it is important to the final recording as without it we would be in great difficulty by cameras getting caught up in cables.The second time i got involved i was on the sound desk, this is a very difficult job as you have 5 microphones and each of these people have different sound levels.

Another form of rehearsals is a recording practice. A recording practice is basically the same except from the fact that it is an actual recording of a show. For this as we did not have our show ready so as the other group had done their show before us we decided to use there questions and dvd's as a recorded rehearsal.

A rehearsal in its simplest form is to practice recording a show and to make sure that everyting is going to plan. If something does not go to plan then this can be changed or corrected so that it looks better. A rehearsal is laso for looking at whether there are any mistakes, anything that is likely to go wrong. For the Live recording there will hopefully be no mistakes as the rehearsals have identified what the problems where.