Much Music - Personal Response

Our media trip to the CHUM building and live television production (Much on Demand) had its positives and negative. I felt as if the trip was spent mostly waiting for things, and a lot of the other audience members as well as some staff were just rude. Once we had finally gotten inside and sat down in the area in which the show takes place, it was a chance for me to see what goes on and what behind the scenes looks like. When the show began to start, we had met the director. I had no idea that he was going to have to tell people to clap and cheer, so to me now when I watch the show, it kind of seems fake. I found that in the beginning when the director was telling people to clap and what not that people did as he said, but as the show went on and he continued to ask it was like people were getting annoyed and didn’t clap and cheer as much. Also when the show was going on I noticed a few different people with video camera’s recording the film, for me it’s hard to understand which one is actually going on T.V. live and why were there so many! Also on the show when there is music being played and the videos, I couldn’t tell who was doing it. I tried looking around but just couldn’t see them. I think maybe if we had gotten a tour before the show that would have been a little more enjoyable so that I’m not sitting there the whole show wondering how someone is doing what, when, why, where and how! When the show had gone to a commercial break, it was nothing that I would have expected. The director and Matte Babel did not seem to get along that well, no one was really listening to the director, also some of the hosts such as Leah Miller seemed really stuck up and rude because she barely took time to socialize with the crowed such as Tim D and Matte did. Things had also seem to be really unorganized, and for a show that’s being done live you think it would be, but when you are unable to locate one of your television hosts for when the commercial’s about to be over, that’s not too well managed. I personally thought the trip would have been a little different then what I had experienced. Parts of it were enjoyable but other parts weren’t as enjoyable, and now seeing things that happen when the show isn’t on air, really just annoys me now because it seems all fake and the female hosts just seem extremely stuck up which I would have never of guessed by seeing them on television. I think that the trip to MTV which we were originally told we were going on would be more enjoyable, not only because I watch that channel more but many students who had gone on the MTV trip said that they enjoyed it a lot more then Much Music.