Rehearsals

Rehearsals should not be for the performers’ benefit. They should have practised in rehearsal rooms – or any room frankly – without you paying the hourly rate for an entire studio crew and facility.

This will be the first time the crew have seen the production. They deserve the time to rehearse their own contribution to the programme, and if your plan doesn’t work, you need time to work out another option and to rehearse that as well.

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More time is lost at the beginning of a studio day than at any other period. You must get to the studio on time. If you fail to turn up, within a few days the rest of the crew won’t bother being prompt, and you will never get the production completed on budget.

At the allotted time, sit down ...

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