ENDA Episode 103→ The time when ENDA shares his Production’s Diary (Part 4)

Shooting a weekly TV-magazine sounds exciting, until you realise you have nowhere pretty to point the camera.

Our first show for the TV-Journalism course was already a logistical Rubik’s Cube: reportages to shoot, interviews to schedule, an art plan to approve, and other logistical nightmares worthy of a producer.

When the studio day arrived, we discovered a small oversight: half of our interview set looked fine, the other half was… a bare black wall.

To make matters worse, on the covered side, there was one backing that was not 100% stable; it was not that it could not stand on its own, but there was a 10 to 20% chance that it would fall with a sudden movement.

Enter our art director with a “brilliant” fix: she crouched behind the backdrop, out of camera view, bracing it with both hands for the entire show.

The result? Well, it worked, and the final result was good. However, we vowed never to tempt gravity again, but fate had other plans.

Two months later, on the very next program, a panicked yell from the switch room: “WHAT THE *#%@ JUST HAPPENED?!” sent stress levels through the roof.

What went wrong that time? Well… that’s for another episode.

The journey continues…