My Roles

10/01/12

My roles on this day were as follows:

Performance 3 - Vision Mixer

  During this performance, I was scheduled to be the vision mixer. This was one of the roles I was very keen on doing at least once throughout the performance, I really enjoyed doing this from back when we first started doing it with Colin in the studio. Also, this is the role I have to undertake in Ricardo's assessment, so I thought it would be good experience to try and get some experience during this task.
  I feel I performed this role very well, and was probably my best effort throughout the day. I had Ashley as my director, and we had discussed our codes for when to switch and when to preview etc. We had also decided the effect that the lower third would use and when it would come in. I felt that I was quick and efficient with the tricaster equipment, and could use it without looking at the buttons, and provided every shot that Ashley asked for.
  I think I was able to this role so well because, first of all, I enjoy doing it. Secondly, the direction was very good, with only one issue when Ashley forgot to ask me to provide the lower third at the time we discussed, but I was able to remind him without affecting his own work. Finally, I think that while some of my classmates tend to use the top bar of buttons on the tricaster, I always work with the lower bar which is the preview section, which may seem like more effort but makes it a lot easier, especially when fading to black etc.

Performance 5 - Camera Assitant 2

  For performance 5, I was supposed to be doing the role of Floor Manager, however, as I was down in the gallery, I was slightly late coming back up to the studio, and a classmate had already picked up the talkback and taken over, which was slightly frustrating as I had waited all morning to get my first role, however we agreed that I would do it for the next act.
  So instead, I was the Camera Assistant 2 for this performance, an important but rather uninteresting role, consisting of tedious manual labour carrying the cables so that camera 2 can run on the track properly, but seen as it is all a team effort, I was more than happy to do it.