I hate early mornings
Hello - I'm Will, former Producer of Chris' afternoon show and now self styled guru of all things visual at Radio 1.
My alarm went off at 3.45 this morning...it wasn't a good look. Back on the early shift after nearly 4 years, yuck. However, all in a good cause as Chris - for the first time in history - has allowed us to film the show while he's on the air. Each day we'll be bringing you the visual highlights of The Chris Moyles show, for a one-week only special offer. This tasty treat will be served up at around 12 ish each day. Today Chris dragged me back on air to promise the listeners that it would be live by 12. It wasn't of course. This wasn't my fault, we had two epic power cuts in the Radio 1 building as I was trying to edit. Besides it's the first time we've done this and there was a fair amount of web-geekery (which frankly goes right over my head) that needed to happen.
It was there by 12.45, but I doubt that'll save my from a roasting on the show tomorrow...oh good...just like the old days!
For the anoraks...we have 5 cameras, three remote robot heads and two static cameras that get a close up of Chris and that weird shot of Dave's big face and Dom in the background. I'm stuck in what can best be described as a cupboard vision mixing the show as we go. It gets recorded onto Final Cut Pro and then I do a hasty edit in time for lunch! Then some people with large brains and questionable social skills take the video from me and it goes on the internet. (I still have no idea how this happens).
Got to also mention Uncle Terry who is there doing something special and secret with a laptop...maybe we'll get to tell you more about that later in the week. Ssshh!
So there you go. A day of firsts, my first blog, Chris' first show on video and Aled's first appearance on TV without hair product. It was a lot of hard work so go check it out. See it here
I'm going to bed now - a week of earlies is not good for a man in my condition.
Will x
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