Newbury College Interactive Media students took the fantastic opportunity to visit the Bristol-based Deal or No Deal studios recently to learn more about the television production industry and how the popular Channel 4 gameshow is recorded.
Students joined the audience to watch the recording of two shows before being invited to ask questions about both the programme and the television industry to the programme’s Director and other members of the production team.
Lecturer of Media at Newbury College Danny Mason who organised the trip said, “Studying Interactive Media is a potential progression route for students into the television industry. Students were treated to a fun and educational trip to the Deal or No Deal studios and they learned what goes on behind the scenes. The students found this to be a great experience and a few of them were even included in the filming of the show”.
Three of the Interactive Media students, Ross Slade, Charlie Beamish Knight and Jade King, took part in a short audition to become a Pilgrim; Ross was successful and was invited to take a box to the show’s presenter Noel Edmonds.