Thursday, Oct 12 was spent with Jack Chavez in a green screen shoot again on the subject of Operational Insights. Back home on Friday for the weekend...
Back out to San Jose, Oct 16 for what was finally the final stretch of these last few taping weeks.
Lauren has been leading the writing of these last few shows....but there has not been much to work with. We had Hank Preston as our primary guest on one show: 'TWTV222 NetDevOps' so I was not too worried. First, I had to get through a small presentation of 'Unscripted'...as I was hosting our 2nd episode, a live interview with Joseph from Avanade on the 17th. I had mistakenly scheduled that for the same date and time as the 'live stream' of the services launch show (the one we taped a few weeks back...read above). I was not really needed for that so time was OK I guess...but I was conflicted about tweeting heavily to ask for attendance of one show vs the other. Either way, the interview with Joseph went really well.
The day was not over...it was still morning and i had get over to building 8 to work with producer Christian as requested by his stakeholder, Ken Spears. Ken had wanted a short set of videos where I thought I would be hosting UCS engineers...but I found out at the last moment that they were looking for sound-bites on green screen. So I just hung out in the control room and let Ken ask all the questions (it is amazing how tired that can be)...and I listed to hear what kind of content they were going for (since I had not heard any details from Ken until the night before). I was waiting to do opens and closes only...but by the time they finished up...Ken was tired and nobody had written any scripts yet...so I let Ken know that I was in studio for two more days...if he wanted to take a break, write some drafts up, that would give him time to think and me time to re-edit before recording....we finally recorded them in the TechWiseTV studio (four opens and four closes) on Thursday morning. All good.