Directing and Director calls

The director uses the floor manager to direct the guests and the host on his behalf while he focus on the camera crew. The director speaks to each camera operator one at a time and asks for them to come up with shots and he checks wither they look good via the vision mixing control desk. the director may also step onto the studio floor and further director everyone but usually lets the floor manager worry about that job.

While talking to the camera operators the director might ask them to perform either a PED, a crab or tracking.

crab - this call is made by the director to the camera operators and means that he wants them to move either left or right, e.g. crab left (move left)

PED- this call is again made by the director and this means that he wants the camera operator to move the shot either up or down e.g. PED UP (move the camera up)

tracking- this call is made the director to the camera operator and means that he wants them to either move towards the guests/ host or object or move away from them e.g. tracking in (move towards them)

Another director call is roll VT this means that both the DVD operator and the Vision mixer know its come to run the DVD player and play the VT insert, the vision mixer should wait a second after hearing this instruction before cutting to the DVD player to allow the DVD operator time to press play on the DVD player.