Live and Alive
10th August 2008
There are moments in live television that are spine tingling. Friday was one of them. After months of anticipation and preparation we were about to go on air with the opening ceremony. As Aileen counted us in to the programme, the adrenalin was coursing through more than one body in the building. Watching my friends direct in the gallery made me feel like a part of something special.
It’s calm but wired in that darkened room. Everyone’s preparing their next move and hoping that technical gremlins are all flushed from the system so that the presentation team can hear their instructions from the director and editor through the noise of the capacity crowd in the Birds’ Nest. What an amazing ceremony it was too. I still can’t believe how that many people can drum in unison. If it had been a Far Side production, the man with the triangle would have really been in trouble! (Dad, you may be the only person who gets that line.)
It’s calm but wired in that darkened room. Everyone’s preparing their next move and hoping that technical gremlins are all flushed from the system so that the presentation team can hear their instructions from the director and editor through the noise of the capacity crowd in the Birds’ Nest. What an amazing ceremony it was too. I still can’t believe how that many people can drum in unison. If it had been a Far Side production, the man with the triangle would have really been in trouble! (Dad, you may be the only person who gets that line.)