Studio Production - CAFT

One of the big things I had to deal with with Andy was the CAFT team, which were the ones that built the set for us for free. As part of their unit, they had to do a commission which was based on doing some work for someone. Andy, Helen, teacher Helen and I went to the UCA Rochester campus to have a presentation in which we would try to convince as many as possible to make building our set their commission. The first problem we had was that only half of the actual second years were there as the other half were on a trip in Barcelona. We had some issues with the presentation at first because we left Andy to do it but it seems he didn't include some things that teacher Helen told him to. Gladly we saved that presentation and pulled up as much stuff as possible and we had about 4 people interested in the project. After explaining the project a bit more in depth with one of their tutors, Fionna Watts, she tried to get more people involved in it. In the end only about 5 people were actually involved in it which was a bit of a shame, but ended up doing the job. 

For a second meeting with them I wasn't able to attend because I had to do something that required my attention. They showed a prototype of what they were going to build which was quite impressive and accurate to what we showed them and what we wanted for our set. After everything was set, they had 2 weeks to build the whole thing in which Andy and I went to check that everything was going according to the plan. The big problem was that overtime we went all we saw were the wood structures of all the things that were going in the background, which wasn't good because all we saw was wood wood and more wood. 

Some of the issues on the day were that first, a table that was showed to us in the prototype and that we requested, wasn't build at all for some reason. They said that we didn't tell them it was needed, but  they showed is what they were going to build and we requested it, so until we tell them not to build it I don't see a reason why they didn't. We had to rush after a long drama to get a table for the set, which was brought from the UCA Rochester campus. Another one of the issues was that the TV didn't fully fit on the stand that they build. I also got quite annoyed about that because Andy and I went up there and checked that they had taken measurements of the TV and someone in a very unprofessional way spoke to me as if they had everything under control and I was dumb for asking. After that, I had all the reason in the world to be upset about the TV not fitting as we asked and got an unfortunate reply from one of the students. In the end the TV stayed on the stand with 1/4 of it having out of it, but gladly it didn't fall and everything was fine.