Friday, October 22, 2010

Harry Hill's TV Burp.

Last night, my brother Ashley, my mum, my good friend Tom and myself went to go and watch Harry Hill's TV Burp get recorded at the BBC Television Studios. It was great fun! We queued for a good two and a half hours or so, but it was worth it as we got great seats and a great view of the whole set. Note, that the picture to your left isn't the view from where we were sitting. I didn't want to risk taking a picture before filming from where we were sitting, just in case someone shouted at me. D: As you can see from the picture, they're tidying up and stuff, so it was at the end.
I don't want to spoil Saturday's episode for any of you, if you are Harry Hill fans and watch the show, so I'm not going to tell you any of the things that happened, but we might be on TV on Saturday, because there was an audience shot in very close to us, so you never know!
It was interesting to see how they filmed it. They basically recorded the whole show as if it was going out live. They just did a full run through and only stopped briefly if Harry forgot his lines or if there was a technical problem or something like that, but that didn't really happen very much, but was funny when it did anyway! The "fight" had to be done a couple of times to get it right, but the fight was awesome, so it was okay. Then, the producers looked over part one first and then they re-shot any scenes or lines or changed anything they thought didn't work well, which wasn't much, and then did the same for part two. Then, they did one specific scene which involved water, so obviously, they wanted to do the messy scene right at the end, which makes sense really. We had a nice chap who kept us entertained when they were setting things up or when there were pauses, and right at the beginning before the whole recording process began. Overall, we were in there for a good two hours, and possibly a bit more. We also got free beer in the foyer, which is never a bad thing. It was so worth the waiting and constant standing around and etc. Considering we didn't actually pay for the tickets itself, it was pretty good! It was good to feel like a part of it, as the audience and their reactions is such an important part of the show, especially for Harry Hill's TV Burp. It's also good that they don't use canned laughter or edit the laughter in themselves as well.
I'd recommend any one go and see it get recorded, or any show get recorded really. It's so interesting to actually watch how they do things and a really good experience.

It was a good day, overall. :)

Heart, Zoe. x

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