Steal the style: Running Order

Steal the Style: Running Order

A running order is something that keeps an accurate account of what happens in a programme. It records information like; music, rights, contributors, programme team and information about the content of the programme. (1)

As Production Assistant (with Jemma) it was part of my job to create the running order that would assist with the scripting and directing of the show.

The first version of the running order was created during a lecture with the entire "crew" and Del. During this lecture we had to decide what segments we wanted in the show, what we wanted involved in them as well as the over all look of the set and some rough camera/light ideas.

Whilst this was happening I wrote down notes that would assist in making a very rough running order. There isn't a lot of detail in this one as it was to purely allow everyone to see the order the show was going to run.

I looked at videos online to help me work out how things would work to flow together well enough. We spoke with the producers and directors to make sure they were happy with the order of everything too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iDu-gxzy_s

The next version of it included a lot more information and had more accurate timings.

This was the last running order we did before the rehearsals. We included the; talent, contributors, props and the location that would be needed for each segment. We also continued with colour coding as it meant that we could easily see what was taking up the most amount of time.

This was the running order that was used during our 1st rehearsal during which we took notes on times and how we could improve it.

The 3rd instalment was very similar to the 2nd however the times were more accurate to the duration.

We did this by timing upwards how long something took. This led us to this edition which we used in our 2nd rehearsal. 

To help us with the format of how a running order should look I looked at the examples on my UCA as well as looked online. 
We came up with the following running orders that followed the format shown in the examples. This made them a lot simpler to read and understand.

The next version was made a lot more simple. After the last rehearsal we were told to not time for chitchat and other things along those lines. Therefore we came up with overall times for the segments and had each part which had to follow a time limit underneath, this for example included interviews or VT's. 

This is the final running order. It contains slightly altered timings however otherwise is the same to the previous, just formatted differently to fit the script.

This is the final running order. 
These are the timings that will be used in the show unless last minuet changes are made.

Running order used on TX Day. This is the 'final running order', we managed to get the show to run to exactly 30 mins using this running order.

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(1) "Running order: what is a running order?" - www.bbc.co.uk/academy/en/articles/art20150407134609399