Room With a View- live on air reflection

My group participated in the Room With a View show on Monday the 2nd of May. My role in this particular program was Panel Operator and also arranging the interview for the Lupus foundation. Unfortunately, the interview I had organised with Lupus Foundation a fortnight before the show had encountered a few troubles; our intended interviewee had cancelled on midday of the Sunday before the show. The interviewee gave us a contact of Keren Dando, who volunteers for the foundation and lives in Sydney. This means that we have to schedule an unplanned phone interview live on air. We immediately received approval from Sam and Elizabeth, and continued with the phone call interview. Despite the fact that I have had several sessions of practice outside of class, I do not feel that I performed my best in the live segment. There was a technical issue in the beginning during the sound introduction that was my fault due to human error, as I accidentally stopped the recording during the introduction. I feel that I was successful, however, in performing a phone interview despite the fact that I have had no practice in conducting one before. However, I feel responsible for many mistakes throughout the show, such as 10 seconds of silence between discussion and the “Me and You” song; which I had not realised at the time. This is because there was a few troubles in paneling the songs- some of them were more difficult to manage the levels of, as at some points that they were too quiet or too loud very suddenly. At the time, I was greatly embarrassed by my paneling, and was not at all confident with my performance. However- upon listening to it again, I can recognize parts that did not go well, but I can also acknowledge sections that did go better than I initially recalled. My transitions between song and presenters went well, and I also think that my paneling of the phone call was strong. Although I do think I can improve on timing skills and leveling at some points, I am proud of what I have accomplished.

I think that there were a few errors in the presenting of the show as well. I think that there should have been more discussion throughout Bek and Pat, as they worked as single hosts rather than co-hosting a show. I also think that the run-sheet went shorter than we needed, and this meant that we were a little bit lost on what to do when we realised that we were running under time. This meant that we had to add songs that we did not initially plan, but I think that we all worked quickly under pressure. Next time, I feel that we should make sure that every part of our run sheet allocates every second possible, and that our presenters go by it more strictly on our next show in Week 13.

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