Humber Connected: The Maple Leafs Show
(Originally broadcast March 7, 2011)
Today's House Blogger was Matthew Cooke
4:24 PM: Blogger struggles to locate a pen for his blogging.
4:26 PM: The producer Bryan Dominchini is ahead of the game by loading his stuff onto record blue during our 30 minute break.
4:36 PM: People start going to their positions. Andrew Sullivan is by himself practicing and getting used to the switcher as TD.
4:40 PM: Matt Pirruccio sits down at the desk in the directors seat with all of hi cues already written out and instantly goes right to work. Phil Working hard on his Toronto Maple Leafs graphic.Giovanni Italiano is taking pictures galore and we are only 14 minutes into rehearsal time.
4:45 PM: The camera's are white balancing and chip charting away. Cat Schwab is WORKING that ghetto teleprompter Brian made. Sean Morrison is already bossing Prahb Shah around like a TRUE Floor Director!
4:50 PM: Prabh and Rob Salvador are already reading through their lines very smoothly. Already seems like a good show.
4:51 PM: Andrew Wood is maxin' and relaxin' it up reading "Sweat Magazine" while sitting with his feet up at record blue.
4:55 PM: Brian and Matt call a very early meeting in the studio to give everyone a nice early pep talk.
5:00 PM: Back to our positions and Tony Palotta is testing the levels of the video from Blue and doing mic checks as AD. Matt being the sweet director he is checks and asks everyones comfortability and then he called for a quick rehearsal.
5:04 PM: The director notices a few things missing/ needed to be worked on during this rehearsal. GOOD THING for rehearsal time!
5:10 PM: Blogger noticing the script, especially the field report with Prahb is hilarious.
5:25 PM: The director is trying to set up a really awesome graphic of all 3 host all on the same screen at once during his last bit of rehearsal time.
5:27 PM: "Kill me now… then at least we won't have to do this…" said our show's director.
5:29 PM: The director calls for bars and tone. Matt Pirruccio seems to be a lot more relaxed.
5:30 PM: The show starts off great without a hitch. The bumper shot didn't quite work at the beginning but the show keeps going. The audio is sounding great from Tony Palotta. Sadly a cough or too was caught by the micas.
5:45 PM: The show ended amazingly with almost no noticeable mistakes.