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Meet Paul!

My name is Paul Lazo and I am a junior Film Production major. I'll be working as the engineer for Fast Forward Rewind, meaning that I help out making sure everything works in the studio so that it gets to your television screens. I've been around the Emerson television block, having worked on a number of Emerson Channel and Emerson Independent Video productions in a number of different hats.

When not telecasting signals from the 8th floor of Tufte, you can find me on set script supervising. I'm the guy that keeps everything continuous and to the book as possible. I've also been known to jump on the stage. In fact I control the Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr pages for Kidding Around, Emerson's only Theatre for Young Audience organization, which you should all go follow. Aside from shameless self promotion I enjoy bad television, eating my weight in ice cream and live music.

My biggest advice to any incoming Freshman would be to not be afraid of stepping outside your major. Get involved, have fun, learn new tricks - collaboration is awesome that way.

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Meet Savannah

Hello Everybody, my name is Savannah Power and I am so proud and excited to be working on FFRW this year! I am a sophomore Film Production major at Emerson and will be working as an Editor for the Student Organization Profiles and Tech Segment.

Previously at Emerson I have been involved with many different organizations and clubs. I worked as a camera operator on Good Morning Emerson for a semester (EmChan), I worked as an Editor on "Deadline" (EIV), as well as independent student run film productions such as last year's Freshman Narrative "Disorder". My favorite Orientation memory would have to be at last years mixer where, because my birthday had fallen that weekend, I was called up to the microphone to answer if I was "single and ready to mingle". Being recently single, it felt really good to stand up and say it out loud for the first time. An awesome fresh start. I think my best advice for our new student population is to give Emerson everything you've got. When I transferred here in the Spring last year, I had lost almost everything I had known up until that point, but now I see it as a blessing because it forced me to meet more people and make the most of my time. Go to as many Orientation events as you can, overload your schedule with clubs (you can always drop some later), and meet as many people as you can no matter how scared and nervous you are because most likely, they are just as scared, nervous and excited as you are. Can't wait to meet you all!

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Meet Lindsay!

Hi, my name is Lindsay Berstein and I am a Post Production major. I am a senior and member of the class of spring 2014. I'm the Faculty Editor for the Orientation Series this year, and could not be any more excited to help out! I have loved being involved at EmChan, and have worked on "Speechless" as a camera operator, audio assistant, and shader for my first semester at Emerson. I have also been part of "Speechless" as Editor, and been involved with "Common Agenda" as a DDR Chyron Operator. I have also been an Assistant Editor for a Frames Per Second production, and I don't mind giving a hand in helping out my friends' productions. My advice for new students here at Emerson is to not be afraid in getting involved here, we have many organizations that you can be a part of, and are certainly enjoyable! Follow your passion, there are many students here who do just that. And we're pretty friendly too! My favorite Orientation memory is when we all gathered in small groups together to explore Boston. My group toured the Aquarium by the Boston Harbour, I really enjoyed that. Boston is a wonderful and historic city, and being at Emerson is just the place to have fun in experiencing all that the city has to offer!

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It's been a whirlwind couple of days! Our first two shows are done, and they keep getting better. We're getting in a rhythm now, and everything is getting smoother. Our typical schedule is:

9-12:00pm- Loading in all of our graphics into the DDR in the TV studio, overseeing the music segment, and making tweaks

1-2:30pm- Okaying our last package (Events) and finalizing the script and rundown with our Script and Production Supervisors

2:30-3:00pm- Printing our packages to tape (taking the digital copy and putting in on a DV tape to play back in studio). This can take a VERY long time if equipment isn't cooperating, which is often doesn't.

3:00-6:00pm- The crew comes, everyone goes over their positions, we rehearse the show and work our any kinks

6:00-6:30pm- We go up live on The Emerson Channel!

6:30pm-7:00pm- Cleaning up the studio

7:00-12:30am- Prep for the next day's show.

And then we get up and do it all again!

The interesting thing about Fast Forward Rewind is that the crew rotates every day, so every show is like a pilot. In a normal semester-long show, our crew has time to get into a rhythm and get comfortable with each other. But when every position rotates except for the producing staff, it's more difficult to build trust in a matter of 3 hours. That being said, our crew has been fantastic and we've had some pretty tight shows. We are really excited for the next three shows, and also completely exhausted.

Make sure to like us on Facebook and check out all of our content on median.emerson.edu and YouTube! We have a ton of stuff going only online, so don't miss out!

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Happy Moving Day!

Welcome to Emerson, new students! We're all so excited to have you here (if you couldn't already tell from the Orientation Leaders). Fast Forward Rewind is finishing up preparations for today's show after a long, stressful day of pre-production yesterday.

Right now we are finishing up the set, checking in on our music show taping next door, and making sure all of our graphics are good to go! It's scary that the first show is already here, but we've been preparing for months, and everything will ultimately work out.

Make sure to tune into the first episode of Fast Forward Rewind TONIGHT at 6:00pm on The Emerson Channel (Channel 3) and online. Keep your eye out for our exclusive online content coming this week!

Look for our crew throughout the week filming orientation and say hi! If you have any questions about the Emerson Channel, feel free to ask any of us!

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There's a Doctor Who Joke in Fast Forward Rewind

But we won't tell you what episode it's in...

Check out Fast Forward Rewind live on the Emerson Channel at 6:00pm Monday, August 27th to Friday, August 31st!

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2 Days!

Our first episode is only a few days away! The studios are closed this weekend, so now is the time to make sure all of our graphics and segments are ready to go for next week. Our Associate Producer has been slaving away at the computer to provide us with footage to use during interviews. We call it "VO," short for "voice over," and we roll it in to make the show more visually appealing and to provide background for our interview guests. She's been taking photos from their Facebook pages and their videos from YouTube and putting them together, saving us a great deal of work. She is incredible!

This morning we started with a crisis bright and early. Not everything can be perfect, and there is bound to be at least one aspect of production that struggles. But problem solving is an important skill to have, and we definitely had to exercise our problem-solving muscles. We worked through it and are confident that everything will work itself out in the coming days!

We met with three of our five directors today to go over the specifics of their shows. It's important for them to communicate with their crew in the control room and their cameras to make sure that everyone is on the same page. We answered all of their questions and prepped them on the breakdown of the show and the space.

After our meetings, we took a break to do a scavenger hunt around the city of Boston! We placed 3rd, won Emerson Channel water bottles. It was such a wonderful break, and great to have 3 hours to run around outside.

Tonight we looked at segments, worked on making credits, compiled all of the information on in-studio demonstrations, and made more graphics to roll in during the demonstrations.

Tomorrow we have a jam-packed day, full of meetings and getting all of the details together for Monday. Welcome to all of the new students who moved in today, and safe travels for all who move in on Monday and Tuesday! We hope to meet you all soon!

-Dawn and Megan

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This morning we got into the TV studio at 8:00am to finish building our sets. While our production design staff built the last big pieces, we filmed another promo for Fast Forward Rewind with our hosts, Shakala and Ian. We don't want to say much about it before it's done, but it puts a fun twist on our show's title. We're excited to share it with all of you!

There were some exciting surprises today! We wanted a mannequin for our fashion segments and didn't think we could get one, until our Executive in Charge of Production rolled one into the studio for us to use for the week! Maybe we shouldn't have been as excited as we were, but anything that makes Fast Forward Rewind look more like The Today Show is a huge plus in our book. In addition to the mannequin, our "window" was finally printed and assembled! We've been working for 4 months to have a false window as part of our main set, and seeing that happen today was exhilarating. We are so pleased with all of our sets, and cannot wait until everyone can see them in all of their glory.

After we shot and captured our footage from our promo, we went into the studio to have a walkthrough with our directors. We showed them the sets and went through the show section by section so they could get an idea of the best camera placement in the space. Our sets take up a lot of space, and the 4 cameras will have a bit of a squeeze in the center of the studio! After the walkthrough, we met with our Production Supervisor and Script Supervisor to go over the script and rundown for the first few episodes. Having precise and detailed paperwork is essential to executing a show with this much content. The rundown breaks down the shows into acts, and then into smaller sections called "items." Each item lists the talent in the shot, the graphics needed and when they come on and off, and the duration of each item, among other things. We got a lot more done than we planned, and had time to start working on our graphics for the show!

Our graphic designers delivered our graphics package today, which is possibly the greatest graphics package we have ever received. We are proud to have such clean and incredibly professional looking graphics for the show. Now it's our turn to put them in our segments and in other footage we'll use in studio. Tonight we're building our credits in Final Cut, looking at completed segments, compiling information for our directors about our in-studio demonstrations, and making full screen graphics with instructions for each demonstration.

We're getting so close to the actual production, it's scary and incredibly exciting! This weekend we are working non-stop to make sure our directors have all of the information that they need to feel comfortable in studio in addition getting together all of the graphics and footage to play in studio. It's daunting and a ton of work, but at the same time we have a blast doing it. Everyone on Fast Forward Rewind and Backyard Boston is here because they love television, and they love Emerson. We hope that you all love it here as much as we do!

-Dawn and Megan

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Today has been another long and busy day! We started at 9:00am filming part of our new crossover promo with Backyard Boston. Our hosts got to play in the Boston Common and Public Garden, climbing trees, chasing ducks, and trying to navigate with a shower curtain map of the MBTA! After our shoot, we got a glimpse of some of our promos that are in the editing process, and we are so excited to share them with you! We'll be posting them this weekend, so stay tuned!

Today was also a troubleshooting day. You can plan as much as you want, but sometimes executing it is unexpectedly difficult. We've been trying to make some elements of our set a reality, and after much planning and going back and forth, our set is starting to come together! We are waiting for a few more big elements, and then we'll get all of the details and little embellishments done. Fast Forward Rewind has 3 large sets this year, which we are really excited about.

Tonight we took a trip across the hall to the DPL (Digital Production Lab) and saw our first segment for this year's Fast Forward Rewind! Campus Wraparounds showed us their almost-completed segment, and it looks fantastic. We are so excited to see the rest of the show's segments and put them into the show.

After the DPL, we held meetings with our producers about their plans for our in-studio demonstrations. Ever episode, we'll have two correspondents come in to teach you about all aspects of EmersonEmerson fashion, decorating your dorm, getting along with your roommate, how to eat well in the dorms, and how to stay in shape. Our producers have been great about planning their demonstrations, and we think they're going to turn out SO well.

In addition to working on the set, we also planned the Emerson Channel's Open House next week! If you are curious about the Emerson Channel and Fast Forward Rewind, come to the 8th Floor of the Tufte building on Friday, August 31st from 10-12pm! Take a tour of the studios, see our sets and control room, and catch a glimpse of our music segment in action!

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Today was another crazy, jam-packed day! Our day started off with an early meeting with our events team to check in and get everything prepped for event coverage next week. Events is always a fun and exciting segment because of the late night shoots and early morning deadlines. We know our events team can totally handle this and we are really pumped to see what they come up!

After we met with the events team, we headed to a meeting with our AP to talk about the VOs we want to roll in during the interviews and commercial breaks. Over the next few days she will be compiling photos and videos of our guests we can insert during their in-studio interviews to make it more visually appealing. She is also working on creating new commercial blocks for us with all of the awesome new promos Emerson Channel has been making.

Next we headed to studio B to check out the promo photo shoot, and as you can tell from the photo above it's looking good! After we finished the photo shoot, our hosts as well as the host from Backyard Boston filmed a quirky dance promo....it's hysterical, and we can't wait to share it with you.

While that was going on, we popped in and out of Studio A to help with the set build. The set build is almost complete, and lighting has begun! Tomorrow we plan on finishing up the set construction and figuring out what props we need to dress up the set.

We managed to squeeze in a short dinner break after leaving the studio and then headed back over to the office to meet with our student profiles team, our fashion team and our writers.

Tomorrow we have an early start (9 AM!) and we'll be shooting some FFRW promos, continuing with the set-build and seeing the first cut of Campus Wraparounds...stay tuned to see how it goes!

Today was a busy, busy, busy day! Our day started at 8 AM - bright and early - to meet with our Line Producer and Music Producers to finalize director lists and crew lists for our show. Picking crews and directors is one of our favorite parts of the this process; we love seeing people's reactions to receiving a position they wanted, and we love giving people the chance to prove themselves and try new things.

Once we finished the crew lists, we sent acceptance emails to our directors and headed over to the general meeting to welcome all of our crew that just got back yesterday! This was followed by a meeting with our dorm decorating and roommate etiquette segment team who was embarking on their first shoot today. And from what we can tell through our quick peek into the DPL, their segment is going wonderfully well!

After our meetings we headed over to studio B to shoot our host's billboards for the opening title sequence. It was so nice to be back in the studio - it feels like home to us. Later in the day we got to take a look at the initial draft of the billboards as the GFX team has incorporated them into open. Let me tell you, our graphics team...they are wizards. We're obsessed with the direction the graphics are going in and cannot wait to see the whole package.

While the opening title sequence shoot was going on in studio B, the building of our main set was happening in studio A under the direction of our Production Designer. We are attempting to cram three large sets into a small space and to see it come together today was reassuring - we're glad it all fits!

We managed to fit in a short dinner break and then headed over to a meeting with our directors where we discussed the breakdown of the show and all the technical elements. We ended the day with a meeting to discuss tomorrow's FFRW/BYB promo shoot. And most importantly, we had a Mandatory Fun kickball game between Emerson Channel and the Orientation Leaders!

Even though today was busy tomorrow promises to be even more jam-packed - stay tuned to see how our promo shoots go!

Today has been just as jam packed as it promised to be! We started early to prep for all of our meetings for later in the day and then popped into studio to start set painting. Some of the flats needed a little face lift before we start to put everything together! Tonight has been packed with 3 back to back segment team meetings, followed by a writer's meeting with our hosts Ian Steele and Shakala Alvaranga, and finally, interviewing directors for our show!

Fast Forward Rewind has 5 episodes in total, where our entire crew rotates in order to teach people different positions. So tonight we are interviewing directors for our live 30 minute show and our exclusive online music show. That's 10 directing spots in total, and 3 and a half hours of interviews in total, and a meeting to figure out crew lists after.

Tomorrow we start putting the set together and starting on lighting, in addition to shooting some stuff for our graphic open. Check back tomorrow for more from Fast Forward Rewind!

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The first episode of Fast Forward Rewind airs in exactly one week!

Get ready, everyone.

Orientation Training begins this week! Get a behind the scenes look at what your Orientation Leaders will be doing to get ready for your arrival next week!

The first episode of Fast Forward Rewind begins Monday, August 27th at 6:00pm on the Emerson Channel. Learn more about the Emerson Channel on emersonchannel.org!

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The Calm Before the Storm

This past weekend we started planning the logistics of our promotional photo shoot, as well as times to meet with our many segment teams about their plans for the next week. Our crew comes tomorrow, and we are so excited to see Fast Forward Rewind come together!

This next week will be easily 3 times as busy as the week before, and we could not be more ready. We hope you are all excited, because things are going to be crazy from here on out!

Check back with us every day for more behind-the-scenes of Fast Forward Rewind and make sure to follow us on Twitter and like us Facebook!

-Dawn and Megan

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Today was a busy, busy, busy day - and as you can tell from the calendar picture above, our calendar for next week is quickly filling up!

This afternoon we met with our music producers to go over all the details for our Fast Forward Rewind music series, figuring out everything from booking bands, to crews, to set and scripts!

Afterwards we met with the Backyard Boston producers, the Backyard Boston hosts, the writers and one of our hosts to discuss the joint BYB/FFRW promos we will be filming next week. Get ready, because they are sure to have you on the ground laughing!

In between those meetings, we worked to establish segment deadlines, rearranged some shoot dates and with the help of if Executive in Charge of Production set-up FFRW director interviews!

We wrapped up the day by meeting with our Hidden Emerson segment producer to review scripts, and planned our schedule for the weekend - which thankfully is a little bit lighter.

The rest of our crew moves in on Monday, and we couldn't be more excited to get started...let the craziness begin!

-Dawn and Megan

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Getting closer~!

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