Recently, I had the opportunity to work behind the scenes on a reality TV show. The show hasn’t been aired yet so I can’t actually disclose any specific information but the whole day was so much fun and quite an eye opener.
Everyone always says reality TV really isn’t really reality at all. That it’s all fake. I didn’t realise how mostly true this was until I was working on the set of one. So much is staged and re-done in order to make a task or a person seem more interesting. There’s so much stopping and starting and there are scenes that are completely fictional but are put in to enhance the narrative of the episode.

We began the day at 9am and by the time we had completed filming, packed everything up, said goodbye to everyone and loaded all the equipment into the cars, it was midnight. I met some great people as well. One point during the day saw me running around China Town carrying a gigantic tripod, with the producer from The Block, a camera man, sound guy and two extremely extroverted contestants. It was a great way for me to see how the different roles involved in a television production come together and aid one another.