It’s not very often big productions or involved productions come to Suffolk so it was great to be involved with one of the more complex productions to visit Dance East’s new home in Ipswich when BBC Question Time came to town. Now the guys on the production do this gig every week along with Any Questions, so they are all over it. However bringing it into Dance East had it’s own set of problems, the building and the studio theatre space was only really conceived around a one truck tour. So parking up two arctic vehicles and a 18 toner along with personal vehicles and the security camper van it was almost like the circus was coming to town. The load in highlighted a few more faults with the fabric of the building, namely there are two 125a three phase supplies intended for the likes of OB vehicles, however they are sighted over dip traps that run outside brilliant you say, well it would be if the dip traps were big enough for you to get a 125a connector through or there was any drawer wire in there. So all that money wasted. Though it wasn’t all sad faces, thanks to the large amount of internal patch in the building we were able to save the video riggers a lot of time by utilising the house infrastructure to route the different signals to the desired locations round the building rather than propping doors open and alike.
Tags: Dance East, Ipswich, Outside Broadcast, Suffolk, TV Show