I definitely felt very rusty being on the Director’s seat again. It’s been awhile since I last directed a live studio broadcast. Because I was still getting back into things, I think we really tried to rush with the camera setups and getting to know how each equipment works. I started the day with telling the camera operators what kind of shot I was looking before we started shooting. I think because we spent so much time setting up we didn’t really have much time to rehearse and practice, which is something I’ll take note of for next time. When I re watch the take, there are definitely things I would improve, knowing the script much more and not underestimating the speed. I knew the script, but I couldn’t keep up with the speed, as I was use to doing talk and news shows. I needed to be faster with my decision making. Shooting multi-cam is very different from single cam. We have to work fast and utilise all our crew members and cameras at the same time. When I was part of the audience, while watching the other groups do their sketches, it was slightly different as they had more preparation time and didn’t have to factor the time to take the equipment out of the closet, so it was all about them readjusting their positions. But I notice while being part of the audience, even though the sketches were funny, we didn’t laugh, we laughed after the sketch was finish. So that was something I noticed different to using a laugh track and learning how to appreciate it just more, by thinking to myself, the laugh track is there so we don’t shy away from laughing when it wants us to. However most of these sketches were quick and to the point without breaks, leaving no room for laugh tracks. But watching from a live audience feels really different, as we don’t see the angles and edits used to make a sitcom, so everything kind of just looked static on stage.