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Oops, where's your mic? |
| Message Name: |
I love it!!!!! |
| Date Posted: |
05/25/2005 |
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I have an anchor who is the habit of taking her mike off AFTER the mike check, and forgetting to put it back on.
Sometimes we're two segments into the show before she remembers to put in her IFB . |
| Message: |
Audio operators must always perform a mic check. It's not an option. Period. And that goes for fast mic switches that happen between 4 anchors as two different anchor teams change mics and IFBs before the last segment in an effort to make the newscasts "seamless." As an anchor I'm switching out that hardwear while walking with scripts to a different location on the set listening to floor directors or producers in the control room tell me about breaking news that they want me to read next for which I have no hard copy. Then there's all the conversation re the breaker as the floor director is across the studio ripping scripts from the printer for the next newscast. It's easy in that chaos to take off and put on mics and IFBs but forget to click on the mic's battery pack. I've seen it happen more than once. Audio must also do mic checks to learn whether batteries are working. Life was a bowl of cherries when we all sat at a desk, didn't move, and dawned mics that didn't go anywhere either.
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