A Chance In The GMA Studios - TV Part

We had visited three state-of-the-art studios in GMA 7. The first one is the studio used in Balitanghali and GMA News Live. I hoped to see Ms. Pia Arcanghel but alas, I did not. There, we saw this technology GMA uses; it is called the camera with prompter. In this technology, the spiel or script is flashed in a monitor through which the scroll pace of the script is controlled in the control on to how fast the reader will be. This script will be reflected on a mirror, and while the presenter is reading the reflection, there is a camera at the back of the mirror. The presenter is now staring both to the script and to the camera. I found it intelligent.

Next studio is the studio used for 24 Oras, State of the Nation, Saksi and GMA Flash Reports. It is the biggest news studio for GMA Network. Here, we got to see Ms. Mariz Umali, another respected reporter in the field. We got to ask questions to her – both personal and educational. She always segway her 'Raffy Tima' to us, which makes her enter the showbiz aura at that moment. In addition, I got a groupie with her aside from the photo opportunity of my classmates. Also here, we saw the green screen used by Mang Tani in his weather reports. 

Next to the news studios we visited the biggest entertainment studio of the network. It is used by Don’t Lose the Money, Bet ng Bayan, Sunday All-Stars, Marian, and those I don’t remember already. Their concept of TV Studios is “box within a box concept”, meaning what is the size and shape of the bigger studio is also the size and shape of the smaller studios. When they need audiences, there are coordinators to coordinate the audiences needed by a program; there are no lines for passersby and general admissions. Also, technical teams should always setup fast and fix it also fast right after they use the studio to give way for the other programs of the network.