Taping is done - all 24 hours, plus the follow up interviews... This has been an ordeal, but then again - it was much more for the dancers. We got a lot of great footage - and many wonderful stories - enough for probably 90 minutes of good TV - but we are set for only one 30 minute show. We spoke with our station manager to day about possibly stretching the special to one hour, but he would prefer we stay with the 30 minute version. That means we are going to have to cut down on the dancers we feature, the twists in the stories we tell, and the amount of actual performance we can show - but on the up side, it will give us a tight 30 minute, and we would rather leaving you wishing for more then waiting for the show to end ;-) Plus, with music rights and all - we can only use approx 3 minutes of each musical piece, so this will probably serve a 30 minute version better. But back to what some of you love here on the blog... PICTURES!
Over the 24 hour time we were taping - we were amazed at how much these dancers dance/work out - we witnessed 2 full ballet classes & 3 full rehearsals of the full program - all before they took the stage for the shows premiere... And we were there to catch it all!
And it was exhausting... Maybe for us more than for the dancers... My Assistant and a producer on this project, Jake Hamilton proved that best...
Yep Jake, Making TV is not for the young or timid - it takes great stamina ;-) But we kid the boy - he only got a short cat nap - and then was back at work well recharged and ready for action, and he was a great help to his crew and the producing staff - we couldn't have done it without you, and it seems you couldn't have done it without a quick nappy-pooh...
We split up for most of the time into 3 crews - I anchored Crew A, which followed Dominic primarily. Laura Lucas had the difficult task of capturing all the secondary characters with her crew (Crew B), and Jake handled Crew C who were charged with capturing the full picture, environment and additional fill photography. And we were all to do this work, with a crew of 11 at our greatest number, while staying out of sight and not influencing the out come... it was tricky, but I am pretty proud of our folks for achieving all of this and doing it so well!
Friday we came back to the station and started working the script to reflect what we actually taped, and then on Monday, we spent the day at DWDT doing follow up interviews with all the people involved. Monday was a very long day and we did not return to the station until after 8pm.
Today, Tuesday, we sat down and started going over the footage, Matt (Director, Lead Camera on Crew A, and editor) started editing work on the show's opening sequence, and Laura and I looked at the script some more.
Now the clock is ticking and we should have the open and the script done by Friday so we can begin principle editing on Monday.
Wish us luck over the next few days...
I'll keep you posted, but there wont be as many pics (and few will be as nice ;-))
Over the 24 hour time we were taping - we were amazed at how much these dancers dance/work out - we witnessed 2 full ballet classes & 3 full rehearsals of the full program - all before they took the stage for the shows premiere... And we were there to catch it all!
And it was exhausting... Maybe for us more than for the dancers... My Assistant and a producer on this project, Jake Hamilton proved that best...
Yep Jake, Making TV is not for the young or timid - it takes great stamina ;-) But we kid the boy - he only got a short cat nap - and then was back at work well recharged and ready for action, and he was a great help to his crew and the producing staff - we couldn't have done it without you, and it seems you couldn't have done it without a quick nappy-pooh...
We split up for most of the time into 3 crews - I anchored Crew A, which followed Dominic primarily. Laura Lucas had the difficult task of capturing all the secondary characters with her crew (Crew B), and Jake handled Crew C who were charged with capturing the full picture, environment and additional fill photography. And we were all to do this work, with a crew of 11 at our greatest number, while staying out of sight and not influencing the out come... it was tricky, but I am pretty proud of our folks for achieving all of this and doing it so well!
Friday we came back to the station and started working the script to reflect what we actually taped, and then on Monday, we spent the day at DWDT doing follow up interviews with all the people involved. Monday was a very long day and we did not return to the station until after 8pm.
Today, Tuesday, we sat down and started going over the footage, Matt (Director, Lead Camera on Crew A, and editor) started editing work on the show's opening sequence, and Laura and I looked at the script some more.
Now the clock is ticking and we should have the open and the script done by Friday so we can begin principle editing on Monday.
Wish us luck over the next few days...
I'll keep you posted, but there wont be as many pics (and few will be as nice ;-))
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