What BBC Songs of Praise Taught Me.

Such an amazing and blessed opportunity to have just spent four weeks working on BBC Songs of Praise. Can't believe how quickly the time has gone; I feel so inspired by the awesome team, who made me feel so welcomed and at home within the creative environment.

I completed a four week unpaid work placement at BBC Songs of Praise. My tasks and roles varied from day-to-day including work as a PMA, runner and researcher.

I was really impressed by the team meetings that took place throughout the week and the timetables on whiteboards they used to plan upcoming shows. Learning from this, I introduced the whiteboard planning into my University news day preparation when I was the TV producer for my course.

Unlike most work experience students, I was really lucky to attend a shoot because it was local to Manchester. I acted as a runner for a feature on first female Bishop, Libby Lane. Alongside the directing assistant producer, David Waters, I went to Libby Lane's house. The piece was about Libby having her painted portrait revealed to her and was aired the following week. On the shoot, I learnt the importance of taking several shots which meant for more options in the edit.

My highlight was having one of my ideas about a Christian train conductor/musician, Paul Mirfin, commissioned and played on the programme in May.

Watch it here:

Since leaving, I was offered to do some more running work when the show were filming in Leeds but unfortunately it was my Goddaughter's Christening- not something I could really miss!