Children In Need 2015

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The Live Show

Children in Need 2015 was broadcast live from YSTV studios beginning around 7:15pm on November 14, 2015 and lasting approximately 2 hours. The live show included presenter challenges, a quiz show, live music, VTs and more. Kenric Yuen and Iona McEwan had produced and directed the show. it's Presented by . The live show had raise £152.3 for BBC children in Need

Theme

This year Children in Need have the theme of "Be a Hero", where the production have based it's script and presenter challenge around it. The main narrative is the presenter trying to find out who of them is the better "Hero Apprentice" for Pudsey. Also Kenric Yuen had "invited" Pudsey from Leeds to film varies VT for YSTV. However due to the closeness of BBC Children in Need and YSTV show, Pudsey is incapable to appear in Live show unless changing the show date.

Pudsey

During the research about the "Be a Hero" theme, Kenric Yuen you can invite Pudsey directly and tried to invited him to the show. However due to the closest

Music Acts

Live

There were two live musical acts, Joe Christie sang 2 song while playing piano, the second act is by Simon Baron who performed guitar and singing. A separate stage area with a black curtain and the end of the lighting rig had set up for easy transition and different lighting set up.

VT

York Revelation Rock-Gospel Choir have let's us film their rehearsal and had written a song specifically for Pudsey. They are do a few other song including Lion King. The VT last over 15 minutes so it could fill the 2 hour time and Kenric Yuen not sure which too pick (as the spontaneous Lion King with Pudsey is great). At the end it work out quite well and gave quite a bit of a break for the crews.

Other Acts

Chris Wall Magic Show
Since inviting and

Fundraising

The Fundraising for Children in Need 2015 mainly is with the just giving website (https://www.justgiving.com/Childreninneed2015/) , which have £110 of donation. The other source of donation come from Pudsey Parade, which collect £42.3. The total raised this year therefore is £152.3

The Good

This section is comprised of all the things that went really well, and that might be good for future producers to replicate.

• Do send lots of emails to your guests in the weeks leading up to the broadcast and keep them up-to-date on all the latest information (all the guests showed up on time!!!)

• Do make lots of detailed plans and schedules on large sheets of poster paper and plaster them all over your bedroom walls (hardly anything was forgotten, except for the graphics).

• Do have a weekly producers meeting and send lots of emails back and forth.

• Do ask more quests than you need in the beginning, because some of them will say no.

The Bad

This section is composed of a list of things that didn't go so well, and that future producers of CiN might want to think about when they are planning their broadcast.

• Production Cycle start really late due to lack of participation (which is common in 2015-2016), where Presenter is pin down only 3 week before the show.

• Due to the short turn around, the Drama is

• Do eat something other than junk food!

• Don't wait till the day of the show to give the presenters the script, especially if the presenters are still madly editing VTs...

• Do train the presenters on how to work with autocue before the actual live broadcast! (Aside from Sarah and Robyn looking a bit uncomfortable with little words scrolling on a screen in front of them, the autocue also died a couple of times, so do have a backup script for the presenters to hold, also...make sure that you use tape to mark the on the autocue screen in the control room, to let the autocue operator know what portion of the text the presenters can see on their screen in the studio.)

• Do request graphics well in advance and not on the day of the show...so that people do not have to scramble to make them for you!

• Do have a backup plan for if a VT doesn't play, as in when the Three peaks videos suddenly stopped playing.

• Don't forget to check that you have the correct equipment when shooting on location (i.e. bring the right type of battery with you).

• Don't let your water bottles, clothing and papers be seen in shot on the floor or tables during the live show.

Credits

• Producers: Kenric Yuen, Iona McEwan
• Director: Iona McEwan
• Presenters: Adam Tye and Kate Whitaker
• Vision Mixer: Rachel Burns
• VT Op: Anthony Williams
• Sound Engineer: Sam Willcocks
• Camera Ops: Joella Panthradil, Grace Downer, Freya Phillips
• Graphics Op: Kenric Yuen
• Autocue Op: Grace Winpenny
• Floor Manager: Daniel Lock
• Special Thanks to: DanceSoc, LegoSoc, York Revelation Rock-Gospel Choir, Pudsey, Chris Wall, Simon Baron, Joe Christie, Alex Light
• Pudsey: Spiritual Supported by (cause Pudsey is real) Kenric Yuen, Iona McEwan
• Technical & Computing: Anthony Williams, Sam Willcox, Peter Eskdale, Sam Nicholson and Robert Walker
• Runner: Anxin Zhang
• Riggers: Peter Eskdale,Anxin Zhang, Sam Willcocks, Robert Walker, Grace Winpenny, Rachel Burns and who else???Unverified or incomplete information
• VT Camera: Anthony Williams
• Graphics & Animation: Kenric Yuen
• Editors: Iona McEwan and Kenric Yuen
• Social Media: Sophie Monk