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Oops, where's your mic? |
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And what do you think the audio guy |
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05/26/2005 |
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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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Is doing all that time? Drinking coffee? I am constantly amazed how talent is NEVER at fault, it is everyone else who screws up. After all, everyone else's job is to make sure that talent doesn't screw up.
In Charlotte last year a weather man forgot to turn his mic on before interrupting the last 10 minutes of "CSI". Guess who got fired for that. Did you guess the master control operator (an employee with over 20 years with the company and had never been written up before)? Then congratulations you have what it takes to be in management at the "New number 1 in Charlotte".
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