I've been to the BBC, oh yes.

Last week I went on a media trip to BBC T.V Centre, which is something I've wanted to do. We had people who gave us a guided tour of the place, which involved seeing where all the news comes in and is organised and whatever although we could only see it from behind glass. They also took us to the CBBC area where we saw the control room where the shots that are shown and stuff is decided and carried out. This was of particular interest to me, I could imagine myself doing something like that perhaps. The whole atmosphere is something I'd love to be part of. We also went into a filming studio where I sat on one of the presenters chairs lol that was cool. Although they pointed out that the sets look a lot better and bigger on screen than they do when you see them in person. The Blue Peter garden was cool although small, I haven't really watched it recently so didn't have an image of what I thought it would be like exactly though.
Another area we went to, was the weather. Here they had a screen like those actually used in the T.V weather forecasts, that they used to demonstrate how the blue screen works, the reference to Harry Potter in their explanation which, if you know me you'll know this quite predictably, kept my interest hehe lol. The penultimate place we were taken was a mock studio designed specifically for the tours were they did a fake news bit and some Weakest link with a few of the group helping out with this and in the mock control room.
The last place we were taken to, via many corridors with green rooms, dry cleaners and even a hairdresser, was the shop. It was here that I bought what I think is a rather cool pen which says BBC on it. :P lol

To be continued... (probably lol)

Well I'm back to continue this post, as I said I would, although a few days later than I had planned. After the, suprisingly short, visit to the BBC, we all got back on our coach to head off to the Science Museum. Here we grabbed some lunch after walking up and down the corridors past various large stuff such as cars, weapons, and planes trying to find the place we were looking for, and then we took our seats inside the IMAX to watch Deep Sea 3D. The screen, as we were told, was rather large and it was quite a cool experience, calming almost at points, as it was as if we were swimming in coral reefs, I could almost have forgotten I was really in a cinema, if there weren't railings at the front also in my view, that is. However the fact it was narrated by Kate Winslet and Johnny Depp had no bearing on me enjoying the film ofcourse. ;P Though saying that, I don't know if I would have known this had I not read it previosley/seen it in the titles.

After this, we boarded our coach and headed home again having had an overall enjoyable day.