Production Progress

These past few weeks me and my class have been rehearsing our production. In the 1st few weeks or our rehearsals we hadn't had a script yet because it takes time to prepare, so we just had to improvise. At 1st these improvisational rehearsals worked successfully and it was good practice. But after a while it got a bit tedious. This s because no one liked the script so it had to be scrapped and re-written. This wasted time and reduced the amount of organised run throughs we had. This was also the case because of teacher absences. Of course the teacher cannot help being ill on these dates, but the director and producer were not reliable enough to continue working without assisstance.

When our rehearsals became more organised, with a rough script and coloured lighting, we decided to involve back drops. But unfortunatly this took over 3/4's of our lesson and as a result we were not able to rehearse.

Further more we experienced many technical difficulties, including faulty microphones, colour correcting cameras, faulty tele prompter, faulty vt segments and cut aways and more... Which all of which we left to the last minute to fix, therefore making the final production a rushed project.

In the last few weeks, we had recorded, edited and sourced all the material necessary to record our final production. But during this time I felt dissappointed in our producer and director because they had let me and the class down. The producer failed to keep us on track and organised and often used the excuse he had work on a certain day, so he couldn't complete some of the work himself that was related to his role as producer. And the director, all though good at times, failed to use specific terms of media jagen, making it hard for me and others to understand instructions and also at times became dead silent and never gave instructions to any of the camera crew or floor manager. As a result of this we had to improvise and the show may not have been as good as it could have been.