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After
seeing my Match preview videos on this
website, the Scotsport Production team
invited me along to the Scotsport studio
at Pacific Quay in Glasgow to see how they
put their show together. I visited the
studios on April the 7th, the same day as
Falkirk played Aberdeen and it was the
ONLY thing that would keep me away from a
Falkirk match.
I
arrived at the studio at 2pm and had to
squeeze through the crowd of girls who
were waiting to see X Factor winner Shayne
Ward, who was appearing live on
STV's five thirty show.
I
was met in the reception by producer
Martyn Bon, who took me upstairs and
introduced me to the rest of the crew.
After meeting everyone, we went for a
production meeting where they discussed
the running order of the show and the time
given to each match and analysis. As they
were running a bit short on time, some
highlights had to be scrapped. Alessandra
(Ali) was the girl that went to the Gretna
v Inverness game. She took me into the
editing room and cut about 45 seconds of
her previously edited highlights. David
McKinney then came into the room and put
the graphics onto the Hearts v Kilmarnock
match.
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Me
with Andy Walker and the SPL Trophy |
After
I had clicked the button to make the
"Stephen Frail" sign go away on
his interview, Ali asked me if I'd like to
interview Scotsport presenters Andy Walker
and Grant Stott. They brought a cameraman
in with all the proper equipment to film
me! During the interview Andy told me
about how his transfer to Falkirk broke
down and Grant spoke about Hibs. Grant
promised to give travellingbairn a
"plug" on his radio show. This
interview is on this site
HERE
Then I went down and watched the five
thirty show in the gallery. The gallery is
where everything is controlled during a
programme. And it's where the people
inform the presenters how long to go until
they're on air.
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After that, we had another meeting. This
one was a script meeting where Grant and
Andy read out their scripts and Andrea
Brownlie (Series Producer) said what
sounded right and what didn't. When it
came to the end of the meeting, Andrea
booked us into an Italian restaurant just
round the corner which was really nice of
them. After dinner, I watched the first 20
minutes of the Falkirk match on a massive
TV screen before going into the Scotsport
studio to see Grant and Andy do their
promos. I got a few pictures taken in the
studio and saw the SPL trophy. The
Scotsport studio is the same studio as the
five thirty show and Scottish News, and
because it's such a tight fit between the
news and the programme, Scotland Today is
broadcasted at the other side of the room
so they just swing the cameras round.
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Where
the matches are edited |
When
the Falkirk game had finished, we went
upstairs and had a chat with Ali and
Stefanie (another girl in the Scotsport
team) about random things to do with
football. Stefanie took me down to Setanta
on the ground floor. It was quite small
and the editing equipment wasn't very big.
She took me into the gallery for Rangers
and Celtic TV and then into the library of
tapes, going back to the early 90's.
Me
and my dad headed back up to the gallery
for the live show as nobody is allowed to
go into the studio during a show apart
from the presenters/guests.
Not even
cameramen are allowed in as the cameras
are robotic and controlled by a remote in
the gallery. The director for the day,
Cliff, told me what all the abbreviations
("Telly Talk") meant just before
Scotsport started.
After
the live show had finished, Andrea gave me
a STV ball, which everyone signed. Then we
came out of the building with Stefanie and
made our way home back to Falkirk.
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Grant
and Andy in the studio |
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