NBC Tour
Last week, on a school trip to New York we took a private tour around the NBC studio. The Tour at NBC Studios, which is one of the oldest and most popular television studio tours, has recently reopened after an 18-month hiatus. The 82-year-old tour, which went on hold last year during renovations at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, offered a firsthand glimpse of the production process behind shows including The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Seth Meyers and NBC Nightly News. As a media student, this offered invaluable insight regarding various camera work and an overall experience on a live media studio.
My favourite experience of the tour was when the tour culminated at the "Tour Studio," and we had the unique chance to produce our own late-night talk show segment. With a provided script (some ad libbing was required), cameras, a control room with built-in laugh track, and volunteers willing to fill in as the house band, every person on the tour walked away having had an hands-on experience learning what it takes to create a show.
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