Setting Up a News Studio

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Now in this segment we are going to learn how to set up your studio. Of course when you set up your studio, first thing you want to do is set up your cameras. Now you want to make sure that you have enough cord on your cameras, enough cord laying so that way you can move around during the news cause you know you're not just going to be sitting there, that way it would be a boring show. Now you want to be able to move your cameras freely and you know not have the wires tug or stop violently, because that can ruin the cords and the connections to the camera. It can pull them out, you know frayed wires you know basically make things pretty bad. And from there of course you want to make sure that your teleprompters are on, your viewfinders are on. You want to make sure that your camera has just enough tension for your pans and tilts, so that way it doesn't move too freely or too quickly if you accidentally hit it or anything like that. Then of course you want to make sure that your microphones are all hooked up, everything is on, ready on the position that it needs to be. And then you do have your monitors for your anchors to see what's going on. A monitor is very, very useful if you are a sportscaster and doing highlights, you know so that way you can see what's going on and keep talking you know to the video. Along with a weather person, because that way they can you know keep talking, see what's going on, see what they're doing and talk relative to which map they're showing. Now on our set we've got a couple of other monitors that we use for graphics and things like that so you do want to make sure those are on and you know obviously on the right inputs for your connections. Otherwise you know it can make for a pretty bad, pretty bad show or your director yelling at you at the last second to turn it on, which you know which these new HD TVs and the plasma TVs and the LCD TVs, they do take a second to get to their full potential so you kind of want to get them on early enough. Just the same thing with the lights as well. You do want to make sure that they are on early enough cause these lights do take a little time to warm up, usually about five minutes before they are at their full potential. So that way you want to you know get them on, get in here early, usually between five and ten minutes before the news cash want to get in here, get everything on, get everything in the right position. That way when your anchor comes in you can get smooth sailing; get everything ready, especially if they have to run in at the last second if they have breaking news or something like that. If they are running in at the last second you don't want to have to you know fumble around and them have to find something. You just want to be able to have them in their spot and get going right away.

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