Multi-cam Evaluation

Production 1:
I felt on the day this production was fragile despite the confidence we shared as a group. We were all sure of how well it would go without realizing exactly how close we were to failure.
The morning of the day started well. The set was up and looking excellent thanks to Georgie, everything was running to plan. Claudia had everything in control, George and Georgie had all the the lights and sound set up and the guests were beginning to arrive.
The lead up to this day although was a little slow, without real knowledge of the task at hand procrastination set in, an abundance of coffee breaks and talking nonsense. This being said we did all thoroughly enjoy what we were doing, setting up the set was a lot of fun and compared to being sat in a stuffy class room we saw this as a little bit of a luxury. Georgie really showed initiative with the set and the use of props with the help of myself Seb and Andrew. George worked hard at setting up the cameras and all the tech, he showed a genuine knowledge of the equipment he was working with and implemented those skills in to our show on the day to an excellent effect. Its the little things that make the difference, the details. George created alot of these details.
The entire show was a success in my eyes, im rather proud of how i worked. I was given the camera with the most use of angles and movement which really gave me an opportunity to get a little creative with the camera, I think I used that opportunity well to get some good shots. Up to the point of the show actually running in front of the audience, I put in a lot of effort to assist everyone that I could. I don't think Seb had a particularly easy time with his role as floor manager and seemed to struggle to find the strength of character he so regularly shows. Because of this i made an effort to assist him and carry the slack and I think I did this well, using me skills with people to make sure the guests and audience members where happy while Seb made sure the studio was set up, safe and had his notes for the running of the show. Which ultimately ran smoothly most down to the fact we were able to have a number of run through's focusing on different aspects of the show.
The final run of the show was a success. With everyone pulling together and our combined efforts really contributing to a good show  that ran smoothly and short of one or two minor errors with cameras (of which Claudia dealt with superbly.) I think the general attitude of the group afterwards and the collective grades reflect that.

Production 2:
The second production was far more trickier than the first. With a jaded group and a far more ambitious project the cracks began to show fairly quickly. Disputes among the group started to arise, people not pulling their wait, personal issues and general unrest really affected our work all the way up untill the day before we were due to get in to the studio with all our pre-production done, this was almost not going to happen.

Once we got in to the studio the group was largely divided. Claudia was away for the majority of the morning collecting the costumes for some of our improv artists aswell as for our scripted extras. Seb was working on the fireplace prof after arriving a little late and George was instructed to complete the final cuts for the first VT's to be played in the show live. This left Andrew, Georgie and I to construct and paint the set, construct the set, arrange the studio effectively and generally have every set up for early afternoon when George and Claudia had arrived. We got all this done extremely quickly and had time to film the shots we need for the short VT in the show. While Andrew and I were filming the shots George was setting up lights and Seb was running improv games with some of our artists.
I think despite all our problems we really worked well as a group on the first day in the studio. We left ourselves with enough time to run rehearsals late afternoon following in to the next day. This was luxury i dont think any of the other groups had been afforded. I think this shows the ability we have individually as well as a group, the ability to pull of such a large project after so many problems having arisen.
The second day short of one significant problem arising went largely speaking, without a hitch. Everything was set up in the morning, perfectly. All the props were in place, all the costumes were arranged and ready to be used, all the lights, sound and cameras were set up and our scripted actors were running lines. We were happy and confident that this show was going to be a success. We ran in to a problem one of our improv artists had dropped out. We were done essentially. Without all of our improv artists we couldnt do the show. Thankfully Mr Neil Hunt, our presenter, stepped in to fill his shoes. With Steve Launay to fill in at short notice for Neil. We were back on, with a new sense of invigoration we all pulled together to finish the show at a good standard.
 Georgie and I began juggling all the assailant things that needs addressing. Georgie worked excellently controlling everyone and delegating effectively and assertively, this made my job so much easier and her professionalism and ability to be aware of everything made sure that i was able to focus on making sure the studio was safe, that all our guests and prepare for the audience who would be arriving shortly.
I think when the audience came in I performed exactly how I had hoped I would. I was confident and tried to be interactive with the audience with the hope to build up their excitement as much as i could. I ran through health and safety and instructed everyone to switch off their phones and ran some applause and laughter instructions and we were ready to shoot.
The entire show went almost perfectly, despite the potentially show ruining issue with our our improv artist, everything went better than I could have hoped for. Everyone seemed to enjoy the show, everyone in the show outdid themselves. Everything went smoothly, I put this down to both dedication and hard work from certain members of the group and a reliable force of 1st years really putting in the hard yards to help us out and make the whole thing happen.

I think it's about time I both criticize and applaud my performance over the two projects. The first one i didnt have anywhere near the freedom but also responsibility i had in our second production. The first one i worked behind other peoples ideas. Working hard to make their visions and ideas a reality and largely supporting the more dominant members of the group. Upon reflection im pleased with how i worked one this project as it gave me experience working within a team and learning that while it doesn't necessarily have to be my ideas and concepts I still have the ability to be a useful member of the team and can assist people to help thing become a little more seamless and picking up the slack where i can. I enjoyed this role because i enjoy giving people my support and im fully of the opinion that if you support someone as best you can, it brings out the best in their performance as well as your own.

On the second production I was in a position of power pretty much from the get go. The whole group got behind my ideas and really wanted to make a good go of it. I felt a good amount of support from the group who initially seemed to be right behind everything that i wanted to do. All the slightly far out concepts and ludicrous ideas i spout sometimes people seemed to really listen to and have a respect for.
This could all be utter non-sense but these are simply my observations. No one can tell you whether they are wrong or right.
I tried as hard as i could to keep and air of confidence and belief even when things seemed to be spiraling out of control (which wasn't particularly easy) and i think i carried this well, giving a good overall performance when it came to it. I think this reflected in the grade i was given.
I thoroughly enjoyed all the negatives and positives of the entire experience and feel as though i learnt alot. It intrigues me to see if i could perhaps work in this sort of environment in a sense of career.