Monday, September 12, 2005

TV Talk

Here is a list of 30 or so phrases and Words

"Fade up sound and vision"
The director is instructing the VM and Audio to dissolve into the first image and sound.

"Roll VT"
The assistant director tells the tapes operator to roll the tape to be used next

"Soft Focus"
The TD or director may use this to ask a camera person to fix their focus

"On 4 Ready 2"
The director assistant telling everyone that we are on shot 4 with camera 2 up next.

"Give me an MCU of the centre host"
The director is asking the a camera person for a medium close up of the host.

"Hold the floor"
The director may wish to have a retake or need to check something quickly but want the floor crew to remain on alert

"Patch the Mic into 21"
The sound supervisor may be asking a stage hand to plug a microphone into socket 21

"Check recording"
The director may ask the tapes operator to check that the record has done so properly.

"Permission to come onto the floor"
the director asks for permission for the the floor manager to come onto the studio floor

"Strike the studio"
the floor manager asks all crew to reset the studio to its original state

"VT rolling. 10 seconds. Standby!"
The floor manager informing the floor crew they are about to come back from a tape segment

"Break camera 1"
the directors assistant telling camera 1 to move to its next position

"Take cam 1"
The directors asking the vm for camera 1 to be put to line

"Dissolve cam 1"
the director asking the vm to cross-dissolve to camera 1

"It's in the can."
the director telling everyone the shoot is finished

-Fast camera movement sideways back and fourth-
The camera man says no

-Fast camera movement up and down-
The camera man says yes

Ped
the pedestal the camera is mounted on

Crabbing
where the cameras pedestal moves with all three wheels

Boom
the long arm contraption holding the condenser microphone

Basher
a person whose job it is to make sure the cables don't get in the way and are arranged properly

"Can we have a line monitor on the floor"
the floor manager is asking probable the TD if they could have a monitor on the floor with the signal going to air or being recored

"The level is peaking"
an input on the sound console is too high and so is distorting

"Trim the gain"
the audio supervisor asking the audio assistant to turn the input gain down a little

"Take cam 3 with super"
The vm must put camera 3 to line with the title or graphic superimposed over it.

"Watch the head room 3"
The director asking camera 3 to keep an eye on the space between the top of the subjects head the top of the frame

Stagger Through
The crew will try to go through a script of a show and stop if they have problems

"Set that shot camera 1"
The director has asked camera 1 to remember that particular shot and recall it when the situation arises

"Can we focus all camera forward for a white balance"
The TD wants to make sure all camera are focused on the white sheet to a proper white balance can be performed

"Cue Talent"
The director is telling the FM to gesture to the talent to start their speaking or movement.

"Silence on the floor!"
The FM is telling floor crew to shut up

"Pull focus to the girl"
Asks the camera person to refocus live onto a girl in the frame

"30 second wind up"
The directors assistant is asking the FM to give the wind up signal to the talent.

"Fade sound and vision"
The directors call when the show has finished

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