16th January
Here shows a rehearsal taking place in the TV Studio. Towards the left, I can be seen as a Camera Operator for this show. The content of the show consisted of a live musician singing a song at a piano. During the live music, my camera was constantly kept live on the musician and I was told to follow them if they moved. One thing that I noticed was that I needed to make sure that the cameras locks were off as when I needed to move the camera it wasn’t very smooth at all, which it needs to be in order for it to look good. Even though the musician wasn’t moving around during the song as he was playing the piano, he often moved gently side to side whilst playing, however the camera still needed to be moved in order to maintain the centre shot the director was looking for all of the time.
In the image to the left, I can be seen operating the lights for the TV Studio. Before the rehearsal commenced, once the studio floor had been set I had to decide which lights I
needed to move in order to make sure that everyone in the show was well lite on the cameras. I felt that the back lighting was very limited due to the way the lights were currently set up in the studio, however for the actual recorded show a few more back lights should be set up in order to make the lighting state much better. At the beginning of the show, Camera one is focused on the door into the studio as the host introduces the guests onto the show. In order for us to light the door as they walk in, I positioned one of the two moving Gobo lights onto the door which gave it a nice spotlight effect. The way the Gobo lights are set up on the desk, when you pan and tilt using the faders, both of the lights move at the same time and at the moment you can’t move them both individually because they are both set to the same channel. In order to improve the lighting on the door, changing the channel of the other Gobo to channel two will enable me to position the other light onto the door so we have two spotlights on the door as the guests walk in.
23rd January
During this rehearsal the Gobo lights came in very hand. They allowed me to light up the monkey puppet peaking out of the back curtain which also enabled it to stand out towards the audience. The rest of the show saw another puppet sitting on the desk and in this case I positioned one of the Gobos onto it to again make it well lite and stand out to the audience. In order to make using the Gobos easier to use, the lighting desk for these allows you to set up Cues which will be much easier during the show then having to manually position them using the faders, when now all you have to do is press a button. This way you can position them where you want them before the show starts and don’t have to worry about them not being in the correct place unless the puppets position changes slightly.
Here you can see a clear image of the Gobo light shining on to the monkey at the back of the studio.
Jack Smith 