PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE • Cameras and Lighting

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Camera:

  • For some of my time on my placement, I was helping out of the studio floor with the camera operators. During this time, I had to help with the line up of the cameras, matching them up with the greyscale chart, which was something I was familiar with from our studio production unit.
  • I also assisted in the framing of the cameras and focussing by sitting in the chairs where the guests were going to be. I also had to test out the autocue to make sue it was working and that it could be seen from where we had positioned the presenters chair.


Lighting:

  • Due to the location, and having floor to ceiling windows, there were often times on a sunny day where we had lots of glare and bright sunlight coming through the windows, even though all of the windows had a filter on. There were some day we there wasn't much we could do and we just had to hope that the sun moved round past the window so that it didn't show up on the cameras. 
  • There was one day where we were getting some reflections from the lights in the studio. This we were able to fix by not only moving the wide shot camera down slightly, by also pinning up a black sheet in between the window and the lights. This worked because not only did it stop the reflection but it also redirected the light downwards on the guests so we didn't lose any of the lighting in the studio.




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Taken by me at The Tower Bridge TV Studios

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