29/03
Today my group rehearsed and then recorded our demo for RRR. From this, I can see that rehearsal is a key step and also a luxury but if time allows we will definitely make it a priority to meet a few times before our first show.
The demo proved really successful. Brad was an excellent panelist and Hannah was able to keep me and Chloe on time. I observed that the runsheet can only be a guide as naturally time gets “lost” and we ended up having more time to talk in our feature interview (13 minutes instead of 10minutes). One thing that happened was my pre-recorded interview dropped out suddenly (we are unsure why this happened) but Brad swiftly went to the text track and so we had minimal dead air.
3/04
Feedback from playing the demo to class:
– Be mindful of superlatives. These are words such as “exciting”. Let the audience decide if the interview was great or not, and if it was don’t talk about it after the fact.
– Wrapping up was difficult. Add insights as they occur in the interview ie “that did not occur to me”
– Thank the whole team, incl guests at the end as well ie “Brad for panel op, Hannah for producing …”