Producer's Blog

For our fourth show this semester, it was a little bit of a different experience for me on taping day. Earlier in the week, I had been approached by Prof. Marra and Prof. Scatterday asking if I would be willing to go on set and produce there.

While this is our class’s third show, this was my first show getting to lead produce. I was really excited when I found out I was the Associate Producer and have enjoyed assisting in the control room the past two shows, but I spent these past two weeks ecstatic about getting to write the script for the show and knowing I would actually get to booth the show on our day in the studio.

Cut to Wednesday with the reporter writing conferences, and it was a rinse and repeat of the previous conferences. However, it was a lot smoother because this was the second time the conferences were done, and a lot of the reporters knew what they were doing and should be on the lookout for specifically this time around.

Today was the first real taping day for Mountaineer Playbook, and it went a lot better than I think anyone was anticipating it would. There are many little pieces of the puzzle that need to align perfectly for this show to go the way it does, and much of that work is done behind the scenes, whether that is writing the script, doing writing conferences, fixing packages, or just marking the papers for cues.