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Media is in the business of live and live to tape television, event management, stage managemnt, and media production. My favorite form is live, multi-camera. This
is a special way of doing video that calls for a hot-switched, multi-source
technique that is making a huge comeback.
If
you work for a television station and do news and public affairs programs,
you know live. If you do sports, you know live. If you do events, both
corporate and regular broadcast, then you know live. If you know music concerts... then you know live.
It's
all in the process! THE
PEABODY AWARDS SHOW
I
did the Peabody Awards show for 15 years. I've directed for broadcast, line-produced and stage managed the ballroom. It's tough to get it on the broadcast schedule because there is little drama about the winners...
they're announced before the luncheon.
The
following example has been reduced from 2 hours to approximately 8
minutes. The show was produced by Jody Danneman of Atlanta Image Arts
and the animation and interviews were added to the live ballroom footage. The original event took place over 3 and one half hours and Jody had
three days to get it down to 2 hours of commercial time (93 minutes). Jody and Harold did a bang up job.
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click the following picture for the Peabody video:
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