The Scary Room Of Buttons.

The control room can be quite the scary place for anyone who is in the broadcasting business. I know that most of my classmates were quite intimidated by it at the start. Even now it can still be hard to handle. I remember doing an internship at CityTv where my first few days where actually just sitting and observing the control room during live shows. It got to be quite chaotic at times as there were times that everyone started yelling all at once. I soon realized that it wasn't all that different from my volunteer work that I had done at Rogers Communications in Oshawa. It was just on a larger scale, with a bigger production team. Thankfully I picked up on some things quite fast as I had some experience from doing the live Rogers shows. By the end of both of those internships, I was participating in multiple roles such as floor directing. No matter what you are learning in broadcasting from a specific program or format, at the end of the day if you understand what you are doing and keep trying then you will succeed. There is nothing more chaotic than the control room during a live broadcasting, but you must find a way to get past all of that to truly work as a team with your crew. If one person isn't pulling their weight than the whole crew is suffering.