Professional crew
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Posted @ 11:11 PM
OMG. I was gonna upload pictures from my camera and when I started looking for it in my bag, I realised it wasn't there! Then I was thinking, I brought it back I'm sure! Confirm + chop! Then I think again, did I take it out when I reach home? "NO~" But I still went around looking for it... after about like 5 - 10 minutes searching, I suddenly recalled 3rd bro borrowed from me when I reach home. -.-! STM. *Slap myself*
Went for a shoot in the morning with ShiR, Ying and Jov @ Fire Station.
Pretty cool and we had fun going into the vehicles for phototaking!
Oh but before that, they had an emergency call halfway during the shoot and their firemen ran and grab the gears and jump into the vehicle, everything happen within like 2 minutes an off they went!
This muffin was in courtesy of Ashley's dad, a rather humourous guy haha
The soundman Johnny was a MunTong lookalike! Then when we told him, he said someone did mistook him for MunTong before, even their names are similar please... BattTong! And uncle Richard was exclaiming agreeably with us, saying that he has always find it so but didn't manage to bring it up, then say that they look like they came out from the same casting model (一样的模型) and the whole conversation was so funny! Johnny also look like my older cousin!!
After the shoot, we were back in MCS, then Jov, Ying and I went to see Sheng Siong Show's rehearsal.
Went to the 'legendary' backstage which I've been wanting to take a look at... waha~ shiok. Mich's audio console is so complicated that lots of question marks are popping above our heads when she's explaining to us.
Their rehearsal are somewhat similar to ours as they call-out to those at the panel, then they will play the game accordingly, and when the camera has to capture the shot of the judges, someone from the crew would stand-in also... haha and it's pretty interesting.
But for a one-hour LIVE show, with 10 over mikes/clip-mikes, 3 audio consoles, props in/out, CG, VT... they only did segments rehearsal with all the adjustments ONCE. No full-dress rehearsal! Then off they go for dinner break. So ZAI! Very impressed.
Actually, I've been impressed by how the crew work with the equipment and all... it really take years of experience and learning... There's so much so much so much more for us to learn, and I like that. Everything seems so interesting and great to experience!
But for a one-hour LIVE show, with 10 over mikes/clip-mikes, 3 audio consoles, props in/out, CG, VT... they only did segments rehearsal with all the adjustments ONCE. No full-dress rehearsal! Then off they go for dinner break. So ZAI! Very impressed.
Actually, I've been impressed by how the crew work with the equipment and all... it really take years of experience and learning... There's so much so much so much more for us to learn, and I like that. Everything seems so interesting and great to experience!
Heard from Mich that they have classification for the various scale of shows... like Mega shows are shows like charity shows, Countdown, Chinese New Year, International LIVE feed shows... those are even more complicated and busy.
It's such a smooth flowing process when you watch it on TV, but the amount of work behind it is tremendous. All the technical skills that the crew has is priceless. Most of them have worked 10, 20 over years, and they know their job very well. It's so different from what we learn in school.
Learning about TV studio management in school is like,
you have to mark in this 2 sentences as maybe: Cam 1 - MCU person A,
then next 2 sentence: Cam 2 - CU person B
and etc.
And at that point in time when I was learning about this marking in for which camera to take what shot of who, I was thinking, HUH?! For a few minutes of recording there's already so much work needed for the marking in on the script, what about those that goes on for an hour?!
And, the studio director would be busy giving cues to the cameraman every now and then... which all of us end up in total confusion!
Well... we are just students... so we are doing it this way. The pros do it this way:
It is when starting to work on oktoLIVE! that made me realise, no, they don't do that. Not at all! The individual cameraman would already know what shot and they should be on during the rehearsals, and the VM would automatically cut from shot to shot without specific instructions from the studio director unless instructed. The AP would do the countdown steadily. Audio technician would do the fader in/out of the music automatically. Everything is so professionally done. It takes years of experience to do that though.
*CLAPS*
It really ain't as simple as how you see on TV.
Well... we are just students... so we are doing it this way. The pros do it this way:
It is when starting to work on oktoLIVE! that made me realise, no, they don't do that. Not at all! The individual cameraman would already know what shot and they should be on during the rehearsals, and the VM would automatically cut from shot to shot without specific instructions from the studio director unless instructed. The AP would do the countdown steadily. Audio technician would do the fader in/out of the music automatically. Everything is so professionally done. It takes years of experience to do that though.
*CLAPS*
It really ain't as simple as how you see on TV.
