Posted by Richard Crowley on 01/07/08 17:32

"Martin Heffels" wrote ...
> "Richard Crowley" wrote:
>>For big-budget PBS classical music shows I've seen, they have
>>somebody reading bar numbers
>
> Or they have a director who is actually reading the music-sheets, and
> commands the camera's from that. Plus, rehearsal of course, lots of it, so
> that the camera-ops know what to do.

The PA reading bar numbers is mostly for the camera ops who
don't have enough hands or eyes to read the scores while operating
their cameras. They know that by bar 186 they need a 3 shot of the
trombones and the numbers on the PL let them know when that is.
It relieves that director of giving (pre-determined) camera directions
that the camera ops could just read for themselves.

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