Archive for September, 2008
Are You Ready for Some Football!
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
NFL Channel here I come.
Currently, I’m Technical Directing the news for the NFL channel and I love it. This is one of the coolest control rooms I’ve ever seen, with six 50″ plasmas screens as our monitor wall and a 4 ME switcher, connected to the largest EVS server on earth it feels more like the helm of the U.S.S. Enterprise then a TV control room. The coolest thing about this place is the large server which occupies the center of the building full of more football footage, past games and highlights then anyone person can handle. I’m amazed at how fast the producers can access a clip or sound bites and then be able to incorporate it into the show.
At the helm of the NFL Channel
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The Agony and the Ecstacy of Shooting Red
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Shooting Red
I’ve just finished directing Big Brother 10 and am now finally getting back to working on some more personal projects. This last weekend I had the opportunity to direct a few scenes for my friend Melodee Lynn‘s acting reel on the RED ONE Camera. After shooting with the Red One I must tell you I love this camera. The images this camera captures is awesome. I was totally blown away by the hole experience, working in television as a director I come across a lot of different cameras and tape formats and out of all the cameras I’ve used this is the closest video camera that I’ve seen that actual looks like film. For this shoot we used my friend Jim Mathers camera and lenses, although we didn’t change lenses much but instead used his optima 200mm-60mm zoom lens. Not changing lenses aloud us to move quickly from set up to set up as we tried do shoot 3 locations in one day.
At first the concept of not having a physical tape at the end of the day is a little unsettling, but you get over that thought quickly once you are screening your dailies over lunch. We had a laptop on set that was down loading files to a back up drive and I was able to take that home that night.
Well I’m on to editing now all I need to do is figure out how to convert the 4k files into ProRess 422 files.
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