Another early start for me today as I went to Knebworth Primary School for a live broadcast for Good Morning Britain!
Year 3 teacher Mr Williams decided that he wanted the parents to hear what the children were singing in music (the bus song), he got his guitar and put on a little performance for the parents one morning and due to popular demand from the parents it's stuck ever since. Every Wednesday morning the kids arrive to school and sing to the parents before they go in to classes, it's gets them all awake, happy and ready to start the day!
I arrived at the primary school to the camera man John and sound man Gareth gearing up ready for the live broadcast, making sure all the equipment was ready and working to patch thorough to the studio.
As the children started to arrive I had to go round and ask the parents to fill out a consent form, to clarify that they are allowing their children to be live on TV. After all the forms where filled in we then had to talk to the children about what they needed to do and run through what we were doing for our live segment. After a couple of practice runs making sure everything was okay we were ready to go on air at 7.20.
After some more filming for the news at 6pm on ITV we got ready for our next live broadcast at 8.10 on ITV. We had to organise the children and parents to make sure they were clearly in view of the camera and after some more test runs, we were ready to go live again!
All the children were really excited about being on TV, they were so happy to sing and dance along with their teacher on guitar. It was a very happy and enjoyable morning filming at the school.
Not only did I get to help on a live broadcast but I also got to see how it is all connected to the studio in London. It was lovely meeting all the crew, the parents and children and watch them sing along so early in the morning!
I'm going to be singing the songs all day now!
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