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Oops, where's your mic? |
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Let's face it |
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05/26/2005 |
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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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Technical people and editorial people can look at the same situation and see two totally different--and sometimes mutually opposed--angles.
I, too, have never once in my career been late to get my headset on and it will always amaze me that many talent can't remember something so critical to their own aircheck as putting on a microphone, not to mention presenting a proper mic check that allows audio to set a level just for them. It's audio's job to ask for a mic check no matter how busy they are and it's talent's job to understand how critical it is to comply quickly and accurately. We are all better off if we just try to understand the other guy's plight.
Having said that, I just don't let it get to me anymore. I will approach talent when everything is calm and tell them how important it is for us to get a proper mic check, for them to be on set on time, to provide reprints, etc., and I frame it as being all for their own good, not mine.
That usually buys some time, but if it doesn't work I just let it go, frankly, because bitching about it doesn't make it go away and only ages me faster.
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