FINAL REHEARSALS
The final rehearsals for Steal the Style were very stressful but extremely rewarding. On this day i came in at 8am, i wanted to be in early so that i could load all of the VTs, titles and stings onto the VT machine, well before the start of rehearsals. In previous rehearsals we had struggled, it took us over 3 hours to get all of the clips onto the machine. This was because the clips we had originally were in an '8-bit' format, however in order to work properly with the machine they needed to be in a '10-bit' format. This meant that I had to put every clip into the programme known as 'Resolve' to render them into the '10 bit' format, and then they would be ready to be loaded onto 'black magic' the programme we would use to play the clips. Loading all the final clips onto the machine on that morning was a fairly simple process, i already knew what to do from the previous rehearsal days so i managed to get all the clips loaded in about an hour.
The only issue with the VTs that we had on the final rehearsal day, was that some of them were still fading to black, something we didn't want. This meant that overnight, leading onto the transmission day, we had to get them re edited and again loaded onto the system.
TRANSMISSION DAY
The day of transmission went very smoothly, all the VTs were loaded on the system and everything was ready to go. The only issue we had was that one of the VTs were still fading to black, however due to the length of time it ran for, we let the production team know and they were able to just cut out of the VT before it faded to black. Within my half of the show, i had 3 stings and 2 VTs to play all within extreme proximity of each other, so i was a little nervous to make sure i kept up with it. I found it was easier for me to follow along with the script, whilst watching the show to know which VT was coming when, it helped that the director would ask the VT to standby before each time but i still wanted to follow along the script so that in the event the director forgot to standby the VT it wouldn't matter because i'd already know what clip was needed and when,
I think the live transmission went really well for everyone and I was really happy with the final product of the VTs.
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