A Camera Operator

What It's Like To Be...

Dan Heath

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4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Framing a scene to draw in the audience, dealing with screaming directors, and getting lost in an actor's performance with Pauline Edwards, a camera operator. What's it like filming a reality TV show? And what's a "swingle"? GOT A COMMENT OR SUGGESTION? Email us at [email protected] WANT TO BE ON THE SHOW? Leave us a voicemail at (919) 213-0456. We’ll ask you to answer two questions: 1. What’s a word or phrase that only someone from your profession would be likely to know and what does i...

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0:00.0	If Pauline Edwards does her job right, you probably won't notice her work at all.
0:05.4	She says a good camera operator's work.
0:08.2	It's invisible.
0:09.4	You know, like you're not saying, oh, that camera move is awesome.
0:13.6	You know, you're just so into the story that you don't notice the operating at all.
0:21.4	In television and film production, there's a role called camera operator.
0:26.4	Their job is to run the cameras.
0:28.7	They literally frame what you see on screen with guidance from the director and the director
0:34.2	of photography.
0:35.4	And it's not just about what's in the frame.
0:37.7	It's about what shouldn't be in the frame.
0:40.6	Like if a sound person has the boom mic too low and it's visible,
0:44.8	the camera operator is the one to call that out.
0:47.5	But they have to be a little judicious.
0:50.0	How often do you have to kind of pause the action or, you know, speak up and say, hey, I think we should take that again?
0:56.9	Is that rare or does it happen almost every day?
0:59.8	I try not to pause that.
1:01.6	You know what I mean?
1:02.2	It's like, you don't want to be like, hey, I felt a bump.
1:05.5	Or, you know what I mean?
1:06.3	Hey, George Clooney.
1:07.1	Stop what you're doing.
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