First Day In The Studio

On Thursday 12th December before the Christmas break, me and my class had started an Multi-camera assignment. There were around 20 students in total which we then had split the class into two groups with 10 members in each. during the first lesson of this assignment the first half of the class had gone into the TV studio whilst the rest stayed in class. When my group had gone into the studio we had experimented with the cameras, vision mixer, teleprompter and some had really wanted to experiment the role as being the talent. Before my visit to the TV studio with the class, I had gone in before and had many experience with the equipment and this was because I had joined a TV club that goes on during Monday Lunch times. During the visit to the studio with our technician as a group, he had taught us the basics of how the cameras work to  zoom in and out of the talent and also to use full focus and to understand the right framing to use with the camera, so it looks professional. He had also taught us how to work and use the equipment inside the studio whether it was to change which camera (Vision Mixer) was being shown. In a live show or a football match more than one camera can be recording at one time so that the vision mixer, producer is able to have different varieties of shot to chose from. Multi-camera is a good way to record chat shows, live games or soap operas because one of the cameras can get in frame ready for the vision mixer to change to their camera whilst another camera is already recording. Finally we had been taught the role of the director and how they would communicate to the floor manger through the microphone.  I enjoyed it because I like one certain thing in the studio which was the vision mixing and also being a camera man.