So You Want to Make a TV Show- 2nd Period- Class #12

[fear_of_fish]

Having handwavily sent an E-mail to the class telling them to meet in the Danger Shop today, the place was set up much like a television studio. A real one, not just something Dana had thrown together in her classroom

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[fear_of_fish]

OMG.

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[decoder_rings]

Hannibal King

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[armybrat_lois]

Lois Lane

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[fabulous_secret]

Adora

During the lecture

[fear_of_fish]

Dana will deal with whatever.

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[decoder_rings]

Hannibal thought he'd do okay with this class. He was pretty damn good at improvising when things sort of went pear shaped.

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[fabulous_secret]

Considering her normal tasks, Adora finally felt confident about something in this class.

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[swipedthatfoot]

Claire figured she was good at improvising. She could rock this.

Scenario #1

[fear_of_fish]

You're an anchor, and the teleprompter was wrong. Rather than reading "Collins is expected to miss practice this week, the result of a bulging disc", it letft out the "S" in disc.

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[decoder_rings]

"Collins is expected to miss practice this week, the result of a bulging dic," Hannibal read, already formulating his plan of action. He paused for a moment, letting that sink in before saying, "And while that particular malady sounds painful, it's probably more suited for channels people have to pay extra for. That should actually be bulging disc and I'm sure Mr. Collins is much happier with a bulging disc than the other thing. Ow."

He winced dramatically.

"We wish Mr. Collins a speedy recovery!"

Well, he tried.

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[inthereflexes]

"Collins is expected to miss practice this week, the result of a bulging dic," he read and managed not to say "oshit" immediately after. "Collins would be expected for next week as soon as the S is back in the disc."

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[ashockingbitch]

"Collins is expected to miss practice this week, the result of a bulging dic." Jenny looked straight into the camera and said, "Collins, call me, unless there's actually an s missing from my prompter, as seems likely, in which case we wish you a speedy recovery."

Scenario #2

[fear_of_fish]

You're a director. During the broadcast with a minute till commercial, a turkey falls from the rafters onto the anchor desk.

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[swipedthatfoot]

Heh. That was kind of cool, but probably not in the middle of a live broadcast.

Claire opened her mouth in surprise and gestured to the anchor guy who wasn't Nate. "Get it off the desk!" she whisper-shouted at him, hoping he'd be able to think of something to say that would cover and let the broadcast get back on track. "Make a joke!"

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[robinthefrog]

Well, this was something Robin could relate to. "If only that'd happened on camera." he muuttered. "Toss it here!" he yelled to the anchor. The realized as it was coming towards him that it was slightly bigger than he was.

Scenario #3

[fear_of_fish]

You're a writer who handed in a script saying the Lakers had narrowly won tonight's game. They actually lost in overtime, you have to get this info to the anchors before they read the wrong info.

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[blondecanary]

"Whoooops." Dinah grabbed the pages, and scribbled a line about, "And in a stunning upset, the Lakers have lost in overtime, 122 to 120," in bright red so it couldn't be missed, then frantically looked around. She sent the right script to the teleprompter, then went behind the camera, signaling to the anchors that there were new pages.

Aaand... okay, below sight-line, she crawled over behind the desk, handed off the script-pages to the guy with the nose, and crawled out of sight, trusting the camera guys to not film her.

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[armybrat_lois]

Lois thought this was pretty simple. Run up behind camera, take in a deep breath and--

"YO! LAKERS LOST!"

There we go.

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[blondecanary]

Dinah stared, then cracked up. Yeah, that worked.