Positioning cameras
From your floor plan you should have a good Idea how many cameras you will need in each area of the studio. If you are working on a programme that has been running for some time, this will have been done already, and it is usually worth fitting in with the camera positions and numbers that are familiar to everyone else.
Cable runs
Most studios have a number of wall boxes that cameras can plug into. You will have to consider lengths of cables available as well as where the cables will lie during your shoot in deciding which wall boxes to use (i.e. will a cable appear in shot dragged across the centre of your stage?).
Crossing cameras
While it is possible to direct cameras across the front of each other, there are two obvious ...
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