Pre-production is always the hardest thing for me to write about. I always feel like I’m talking about the exact same things. What I did right, and what I need to do better next time. Really, there’s always going to be a huge “what I could do better”.

Obviously pre-production started off with getting familiar with our crew, and assigning roles. I decided to take on the role of the producer. For me, I was expecting to have a whole lot of pressure before the production day, but that wasn’t so much the case. I’m not sure if this is because maybe, just maybe, we were actually organised this time, or maybe I wasn’t stepping up the role as strongly as I should have. I enjoy planning, and organising people, events, work, etc, but when it came to working with people that have done this sort of thing before, I felt as though I held back a bit (in pre-production at least).

My first idea was to have a sort of talk show. Discussing current affairs, and just anything that was going on in the news, and media in general over the week or so leading up to the live show. I was looking forward to this idea, but eventually we ended up just going with a quiz show. We were going to have to recruit people from other groups to lead and hold the discussions, which we found nobody wanted to do, as it became extra work on top of their own productions. Fair. So the quiz show was the new way to go.

We organised the general idea of the quiz, how many people we needed, and what sorts of questions we were going to ask. Other than this, pre-production just involved us communicating between one another, ensuring that we had all of our individuals jobs completed in time for the show.

From how it appeared on the day, our pre-production set us up pretty strongly on the day, and we were able to confidently go into our show knowing we were ready. I will talk more about the actual day of production in my next post.