Multi-Camera (Job Role: Crane Operator)

after a love-hate relationship with the crane in the beginning, I learnt how to co-ordinate the camera and crane in unison and as smoothly as possible.
I began to appreciate the usage of it, and on the last of our practices I usually dashed for the role.
Before I was worried and overwhelmed about the equipment, but as I tried it for the second time, I realised how simple a task it is once you get a hang of it.
I managed with 4 practices in lecture hours, first starting on the 11th November 2014.

Multi-Camera (Job Role: Floor Manager)

Perhaps one of my favourite job roles is floor managing. Responsibility is to take care and manage the studio, comfort guest and pass on questions of many to the director and answer them.
as well as using hand gesture that symbolises when the show starts and when you should end it, when to raise the person of interests voice, or lower it, when to lengthen or shorten their questions or answers.
Being responsible in the studio means, that everything the director wants, or what should be corrected, is in that persons hand.

Multi-Camera (Job Role: Sound Operator)

When it came to sound I made sure that neck microphones where put on guest and presenter appropriately,
matched the levels of sound of intro to the mic on the guest and presenter, keeping the levels of sound in a continuous manner. One not too low, one not too high, just appropriate for the viewing experience.
 I had 3 practices as sound operator and on each i assisted the person in control of the sound machine.
First started sound operator on the 11th November 2014.

Multi-Camera (Job Role: Lights Operator)

The job of Lights operator, like CCU was not as such very interesting and so I only managed to do one practise on it, 26th November 2014. Unlike the CCU however, I knew how to use the machine and worked well on it.
Its job is finding the right appropriate set colours and lighting that will accentuate the set and the topic in discussion. This sets a certain mood, and helps make the guest and presenter a lot better in specific lighting.

In words, it's very important for a production if one enjoys doing it, but i found it hardly enjoyable and so like CCU, kept arms distance (not by force, but preferably avoidable).

Multi-Camera (Job Role: CCU Operator)

CCU Operator is perhaps the most I don't know about,
I didn't have proper work on it, as before my turn for the practise on the 9th of December 2014, another student was working on CCU, and thus the brightness, exposure of the cameras were already in position, and so I didn't have much to work on.
I didn't work on the CCU any further as I found the job rather dull.
Once the cameras exposure was set, you had nothing much to do during the programme, and I found the thought of it very anti-clamatic. and so I kept my distance from the job role as far as possible.

Multi-Camera (Job Role: VTR Operator)

The VTR operator job was one I liked, alongside sound operator and crane operator.
I had 3 practices and one allocated job role assigned by the director to create his programme of perspettiva.

On the first day, 11th November 2014, just like the director I was worried about the complex look of it, and worried. But after it was explained what my role was responsible of doing, I instantly learned to like it.
Having our first and last practise of that day, I was certain that i'll be back on VTR at some point or another, it was interesting and time keeping was of my asset.

Strength:

Time keeping and assuring the director of the remaining minutes of the clip.

Weaknesses:

Whilst time keeping was my asset, its also very overwhelming when you have various different times going off, such as the time of programme, when to start recording, assuring the director the remaining time of clip, whilst also cueing the introduction for beginning and ending of the programme.

Multi-Camera (Job Role: Director)

My experience during my lecture hours as a director, on the 22nd October 2014, I had realised that the job was not as such a comfortable one.

I often get anxiety, and with the role of director, that is exactly what happened. As I sat in the chair of the control room, I was overwhelmed by the amount of buttons there was on the visual mixer, after learning what to do with the visual mixer, we went straight into practice for a live webisode, and I knew the moment I pressed the "stream" button, that I would struggle instantaneously.

After finishing the live webisode, i had four more retries, and with each retries I have improved considerably.

Weaknesses:

My weaknesses as director, is co-ordination and communication. I delayed my "stand by"s and as for co-ordination, I struggled to keep an eye on which camera gave me a good shot, and which i had decided to stream. Was easily stressed under strenuous pressure.

Strengths:

after the fourth retry i had managed to improve my communication by a smudge. This showed an improvement.

However after those four retries I had made a note to keep arms distance from being a director, and for our programme in perspettiva,  the team and myself had decided to allocate me to a floor managing role.