Chapter 4
The Electronic Eye
Part 1 Camera Basics
It takes a lot of skill to be able to select and position microphones to capture absolutely the best sound for recording or broadcast. To be a boom operator is not perhaps the most glamorous job in sound, but nevertheless it takes a good deal of skill and concentration. Equipping talent with radio mics takes technical expertise and the ability to work with people suffering from pre-performance nerves. Everyone knows how to get a microphone to work – a simple matter of ‘plug and point’ – but to get the best out of it is entirely another matter. The same applies to video cameras. We all know how to shoot a home video, but we conveniently ignore how shaky and how poorly framed our images are, how ...
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