[Tech1] BBC training

[Alasdair Lawrance]

To set a mood is an admirable ambition, but as somebody on this list once said -

"Couldn't see it, couldn't hear it, turned it off!"

Alasdair Lawrance

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> On 31 May 2018, at 18:12, Alec Bray via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
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>> On 31/05/2018 15:00, Dave Plowman via Tech1 wrote:
>> Say you insist on shooting several different angles at the same time.
>> There is likely to be at least some lighting compromise to allow this.
> Isn't that what we did  with theatrical-style multi-camera as-live drama?  aka Z-Cars, Dixon etc etc.
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> In those days, lighting was straightforward:  key-light, backlight, filler.  I've been to a couple of light entertainment recordings recently, and the lighting seems to be all filler: I looked around for a key-light and apart from a follow-spot on "Dancing on Ice" couldn't see one.  But there again, cameras nowadays work in much lower lighting levels than way back when. And the transmission chain is different, too. When I was seconded to Vision Control, one of the aims we had was to keep a fair amount of variation in the signal level per line and per frame, so that the poor TV sets at home could cope  (Black level clamp? wassat?) .  Nowadays, there are quite a few programs where the picture is (in old money) sat well down in the dark, very little variation in "signal" amplitude across the screen, so that the picture looks dark - to set a mood.
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