{"id":3542,"date":"2015-02-07T08:53:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T08:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/?page_id=3542"},"modified":"2015-02-07T08:53:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T08:53:25","slug":"thats-why-we-had-cameramen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/thats-why-we-had-cameramen\/","title":{"rendered":"That\u2019s Why we had Cameramen \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

BBC News 24<\/h2>\n

4th<\/sup>  April  2014: Where’s the journalist?<\/h2>\n

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Gary Critcher<\/strong><\/h3>\n

This is a good one.
\n        https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cyvVZAu_N2s<\/a><\/span><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

Mike Giles, Ian Hillson<\/strong><\/h3>\n

If you didn\u2019t laugh, you\u2019d cry! But it probably has the benefit of waking the viewers up ~ 24 hour news would certainly send me to sleep.  I’m sure some of the soporific quality of BBC News is due to the monotone delivery of some of the reporters – made more noticeable by the "pausing in the middle ….. of sentences" for dramatic effect. <\/p>\n

Bill Jenkin, Alan Stokes<\/strong><\/h3>\n

This is only one in a long line\u2026 It\u2019s caused by journalists entering the wrong Mosart commands. Once F12 is pushed on the keyboard there isn\u2019t much that can be done (or so I\u2019m told).  There is always <CTRL><ALT><DELETE> (or Mac equivalent) which could be even funnier, as they wait for a re-boot. I take it the cameras default  to ‘home’?<\/p>\n

See also:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/youtu.be\/7jHsoauynPM<\/a><\/span><\/font><\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/youtu.be\/3Vegx_f9C50<\/a><\/span><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

From the website: <\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026 Viz Mosart is the number one studio control system in Europe with more than 70 percent market share, and the only open studio automation system capable of working with all major systems and devices, including all leading video switchers\u2026 Viz Mosart takes input from the newsroom computer system and translates it into commands for all connected systems and devices, giving the broadcaster greater flexibility, speed of response, and cost-effectiveness in news, weather and sports broadcasts\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Patrick Heigham, Jeff Booth, Ian Hillson,<\/strong><\/h3>\n

That’s why we used to have real cameramen and floor managers!  But it\u2019s 2014 =- what are they? What we need is more Journalists – no, sorry, that’s what we have already, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

John Bennett<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Where on earth can you find a "mint condition" Cameraman these days? They’re rare as Hen’s teeth!<\/p>\n

see Radio Times Van on this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Patrick Heigham<\/strong><\/h3>\n

I have been watching the repeats of Michael Portillo’s Train Journeys around the UK (2014), and in the main, enjoying – but I get increasingly annoyed at the camerawork during the interviews.<\/p>\n

Handheld, and no anticipation before or after the question\/answer to turn the camera to the opposite character \u2013 hose piping like an amateur wedding video. Also the zoom control suffers from an itchy finger – I assume it’s on a rocker switch instead of being a proper zoom ring on the lens.<\/p>\n

The series was made by TalkBack Thames, the credit is for \u201cFilmed by and Directed by \u2026\u201d, so is it a Director that thinks he cope with camerawork, or a cameraman who thinks he can direct?<\/p>\n

I could and have done better, being properly trained by the BBC system in the early 1960s.<\/p>\n

I was appalled, years ago, at seeing an internal advertisement while filming in the boardroom of the White City building, advertising training courses for researchers to go out and film reports. (Saw one interview where the 2nd camera had been set up the wrong side of the main, so the eyeline crossed the line. Doh!)<\/p>\n

This is a real downgrading of quality television – quality? Wot dat?<\/p>\n

Gary Critcher<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u2026and don\u2019t get me started about the \u2018Antiques Roadtrip\u2019 series.
\n  \u2018White Balance?  No, we don\u2019t need any of those\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n

Patrick Heigham<\/strong><\/h3>\n

White Balance!<\/p>\n

I have a fond memory of Oslo – working for ABC New York, we needed a B-Roll pretty shot of the city – leaving the car at the parking place we trudged up the hill to the viewpoint.<\/p>\n

As the light was dying and getting redder, cameraman needed to re-white balance. I normally kept the white card in my SQN pocket, but it had been left in the car – no time to go and retrieve it.<\/p>\n

Our pretty lady producer\/director, with whom we had worked many times, pipes up:
\n"I’ve got white panties on!"
\nand obligingly dropped her jeans and bent over for the cameraman to focus on her delightful rear!<\/p>\n

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