Studio Production: Final Reflection

My thoughts on the project are overall positive. I feel like it was a really good experience and something that has helped me to develop my skill set as i am not a very confident person when it comes to large groups of people and i find it difficult to give feedback unless it is one on one. Therefore it was challenging for me to be able to communicate to the group at times and at times i couldn't handle the pressure of everyone needing my help and attention and this is where i learnt a valuable lesson from teacher helen. She said that when anyone asked me for advice i should ask them questions back rather than give them a solution as it give you more time to compose yourself and also helps them to think of the answer themselves. This helped me as it took the pressure of me and placed  it onto them.
I also learnt that i needed to delegate more to kate and roxanne. At the beginning i took on a lot of repsponibility and wasn't sure what kate and roxanne should be doing that i was, so in the end they asked me for any jobs they could help with and i assigned them things to do. This proved really helpful as it took some pressure of me and gave me the opportunity to focus on the things i enjoyed a lot more and so they took over a lot more of the paperwork and research to allow me the opportunity to focus on my other jobs.

I am really pleased with the finished show and even though a couple of issues occurred, that is what can happen with live TV and i think i really helped to maintain moral by making sure between the 2 halves of the show that everyone felt pumped and shook off the problems of the first half. I think i did a good job of using talk back with jamie. I tried to keep it to a minimum and was mainly to cue him for any important questions or to tell him to move on due to time. I think having this role was really important as it helped with keeping the running order to time and also helped Jamie to know exactly what to say if something came up as an issue. For example the vision mixers missed their cue on a graphic that they needed for the show and unfortuantly after a short pause, Jamie began to try and save the situation in the hope that the graphic would appear but as i was in the gallery i made the decision to move on as it became clear that it might not happen. This made the talk back a really helpful thing as kate would not have been able to make that clear to jamie in the time i was and so it saved valuable seconds.

Stay safe,

Helen