Schedule for Dress Rehearsal & Live Show Days | Production Notes ~ SP

Here is the schedule for the dress rehearsal day on Wednesday:

I am scheduled to come in for 9am, but I've decided to come in slightly earlier in order to prepare myself for the two busy days ahead but also not make sure everything is in order before the set design team arrive and put the set together.

Sammi has to put down her floor before that as well, so the more hands helping her, the quicker it will take. 

The set and lights should be rigged at around 9-half 9 and the crew should all be on the floor at 10am. If there isn't anything for them to do, however, then they will be sent back up to the base room as we don't want too many people just wandering around the studio doing nothing.

If everything goes to plan our first rehearsal will start at around half past 2, which is when the live show, the day after, will record.

We are hoping to get at least 2 rehearsals in, at a push 3, in order to really prepare ourselves for the real thing.

At the end of the day, the cameras will be taken down and stored in the gallery over night, while the tripods and everything else will stay where it is already.

Here is the schedule for the live show on Thursday:

The morning schedule has been changed slightly:

I am scheduled to come in for about half past 8, 9am, but like Wednesday, I'm going to come in earlier as I want to be there to oversee the lighting being put in. Also if there are any changes that need to be made before that, then I can always do that in the morning.
Our first rehearsal starts at 10 am, and we have a second one at 10. 45 am. Then once they are over we have no more run throughs of the show before the actual live recording of it.
We all have lunch around 12pm and get back to the studio floor around 1pm for a group chat and final prep for the show. The audience will be seated in the studio at around 2, the warm up act will perform and then Simon and Imogen will say their speeches to do with fire exits and other info such as that.
The live record starts at 2:30pm and finishes at 3pm. We then have a final thank you and de rig the set and equipment. We should then be out of the studio by 4pm.

Hopefully everything will run smoothly on both days, and hopefully we will get enough rehearsals in to ensure that everyone is happy with the show.
I'm glad we only have 2 rehearsals on the actual day as we don't want everyone to feel too tired to do the show, as that will come across on screen.

I'm nervous for the live show, but I think it will turn out really good and we'll all be really happy with the outcome.