Just a question I have did you direct the NBA finals feed as the NBC feed had different angles.

@@chriswalski they only did this. NBA was seperate.

Hamish Hamilton TV just watched this clip of you directing streets again and loved it all over again. Fantastic job.

Did you?

Lol Sergio you would say this haha

@@Samueldonovan2007 LOL, 10 years later and Hamish still hasn't learnt how to do it properly hahaha

[late reply, but maybe it'll help somebody] I'm no expert, but I think it's safe to say that yes, a UK vision mixer has quite a bit more independence in terms of shot selection than a US TD (relatively speaking). This particular song was broadcast live on US TV (during NBA playoffs/finals I think?), so in that scenario in particular, the vision mixer does seem to have significant creative latitude on something largely unscripted like this show. But this concert as a whole was being shot as-live for later editing, so apart from the live broadcast/simulcast, the line cut on the night would have only been a starting point for the project's editor(s). Hamilton's goal would have been to ensure solid, continuous coverage across all 14 cameras for maximum flexibility in post, with the line cut being secondary. There seems to have been quite a bit of fine-tuning in the edit, including 'cheating' with occasional shots from different camera positions in the previous night's concert. Though on this particular track they seem to have stuck pretty close to the line cut they created on the night, as seen in this video (and understandably so...it's just about perfect!).

Amber Turner there are loads more automated cameras nowadays, but mostly for studio work. Live, temporary broadcasts are mostly still crewed operations with human ops. News studios in particular are going more and more automated.

That's probbly really hard to get into tho. Every man i see thats a cameraman that does live eventss or even sports events are older. And Im a young female. Im not sure if i should go to college for something I wouldn't be able to get a job for without knowing someone. Choices choices

Like a dj counts beats per minute so they can mix in the next song. She is counting in each bar of the song , this is so the vision mixer know when to to cut to different cameras. Doing live music Multi Camera is some of the most complicated but fun live TV you can do !

That lady is the "Assistant Director". The only skill you need for that job is being able to count, and sometimes being able to count backwards. It's perfect training for the job (Director) in which the greatest challenge is convincing people that what you're doing is really really hard and worth paying you a lot of money, all while not really doing much of anything besides having an opinion on which camera should be on the screen at any given time. Hence all the smoke-and-mirrors jumping around and yelling a lot. Notice almost all the people complimenting this guy are TV people. They're all hoping Hamish will give them a job someday.

She is the Studio PA, not the Assistant Director, we don't tend to have ADs in studio in the UK

+floneus +Craig Tollting euhmm no. The assistent director know everything about everything. She has to know the exact songs, when the drums start, what the singer is going to do. (in the case of music). The counting is so the directer knows when the song changes so he can switch camara's on the right moment.

+Craig Tollting is there more to your posts? A backstory? You seem to really have it in for tv production crews. Are we missing something?

If I remember, things were going wrong just before this with the most important shot of the concert being next (viewable in the lower feed on the left, 1:02-1:17). Plus, the song was going out live to the NBA Finals worldwide TV broadcast. No pressure. It was a spectacular recovery, couldn't have dreamed the shot better.