I was thinking to myself, what better way is there to spend my weekend after my first week behind the camera at the BBC? Well, I know.......I went off to Manchester for the weekend after securing two tickets to watch the filming of a new family entertainment show 'Don't scare the hare'.
I arrived at Media City, Manchester at 10.30am half an hour before the advised arrival time to find out that the couple directly in front of us would be the last ones in.....hmmmmm (Girlfriend was not impressed at this point, after the early start to her day off!). Roughly an hour after being placed number 1 & 2 on the standby list we noticed those who had made it had started to make there way into the studio. Surprisingly standby list numbers 1-13 were called in to the studio, we had a special position..............they sat us not on the audience side behind the camera but instead on the three little benches that were in front of the camera's (At this point the girlfriend starts checking her makeup!). Anyway, we managed to make it into the studio for the recording of the saturday night Tv show that will be released in April so things turned out ok. It was really interesting to watch the Floor Managers, Camera Operators and runners throughout the day carrying out there everyday job. There must of been in the region of 30 crew members in the studio. In the game show to teams of contestants have to compete in challenges against each other in order to win carrots but they must not scare the Hare in the process. Its surprising to see how many takes it takes the professional presenters to get things right, not even they can always manage to get there lines out at the first time of asking even with the advantage of the Autocue.
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