Thursday, June 9- BFI / OXFORD CIRCUS / BBC

Thursday, June 9-

BFI / OXFORD CIRCUS / BBC TELEVISION CENTRE

BFI Center: Where we'll research for our term papers.

Went to the BFI orientation on Stephen Street where we saw this large library of television and film information. Of course when the librarian showed us how to navigate the system she used keywords of Stephen Fry and Doctor Who.

Same book I used to analyze my Hitchcock Term Paper last semester! Sitting out as a display.


Got Cornish Pies next to the Dominion Theatre playing the musical based off of Queen's songs called "We Will Rock You!" We're going to try and get half priced tickets the morning of at Leicester Square one day.

After that walked along Oxford Circus (fashion street of london!).

Went into Top Shop and bought a bag from Top Man.

Top Shop is WAY more fabulous that I ever imagined!!!

DOROTHY PERKINS

H & M

TEA SHOP

Football Shop

Magazines

"Aright- Gary!"

On our way to the BBC!

At BBC Television Centre Studios Tour where we passed through the Stage Doors that all the stars do. They had extravagant stories of the diva qualities of Madonna and J-Lo.

Lisa making friends with a Dalek. I think I've over 20 daleks in the past week here and there.

In BBC studio's Dressing Room #1, they say more royal fannies have sat here than any other toilet in the BBC including Harrison Ford gave his "sentiments to parliament" and J-Lo wouldn't go. #1 was the closest to the main studios and the closer to the studios you were the more important you are. The building from birds eye view is actually shaped like a question mark! pretty neat design actually.

Sterling has no idea what Doctor Who is- but insisted he take a picture because he was not going to be the only one with out one.

Inside the center of the "?" design of the building.

They have SO MANY FIRE EXITS AND SIGNS!!! They don't get natural disasters here like everywhere else but they sure have a lot of fires.

We walked back outside the studios after the tour to get in line for the audience taping. Look it's my favorite two comedians from The Mighty Boosh- Julian Barratt (plays a boring jazz enthusiast) and Noel Fielding (plays an electro ponce). Lisa asked, "who's that woman? oh what nevermind haha."

We saw the audience taping of “Alexander Armstrong’s Pointless” at BBC Television Studios. Lisa, Sam Sauls, Brandy, Shelia and I were up top while the rest of the group was up front providing deliberately obnoxious laughter to the dead beat moments of the program.

I can't believe I missed seeing Jimmy Carr out on the studio floor by 2 minutes! A funny english comedian-

It was Celebrity Specials just in and I was so surprised I didn't recognize a one. Most of the shows I spot on their channels I've seen one or know one of them and not a one I knew in tonight. boooo. But we got to see how a quiz show was filmed for edit. Many long pauses. They had a warm up guy to coach us to laugh and rile us up take to take. Then at the end, they turned the camera's back on us and asked for certain kind of responses like disappointment, laughter, excitement, and "tittering." --they'd used this to edit in other shows including this one if they liked our response.

After we went to the Westfield Mall outside the BBC and ate dinner and road the tube back. Half of the group split up in order to find the famous "9 & 3/4" stop at King's Cross in Harry Potter. We've seen pictures of a bronze trollie going through the wall- but turns out it's not a wall but literally a train between 9 & 10. So we didn't find it after all.

Ed Lie- the biggest DW fan on the trip drew our teacher, Sam Sauls, as a Dalek in his journal (with the epic mustache).