Tech Notes by Roger Macie |
Roger Macie's
30-year broadcast career has been focused
on video shading, field camera and VTR maintenance.
His electronic education began at Don Bosco
Technical High, and finished with a Bachelor
of Science degree in Electrical Engineering
at Northeastern University. Through the
years he has kept up with the latest factory
training on cameras, Umatic, BetacamSP formats
and recently digital video tape decks .
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15 Tech articles by Roger Macie - A must
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Matte Box Magic by Mark Allen |
You've been
there, I've been there. The producer with
an ENG budget wants a 35mm look. It's all
part of what makes our work interesting,
right? As our clients become more sophisticated,
so too must camera people adapt to the many
different styles and looks requested of
them. Just look at what we carry around
with us on a regular basis. Some of the
standard equipment in today's news and EFP
arenas were seldom seen away from a film
set only ten years ago. Nowadays, soft boxes,
dimmers, C-stands, lighting booms, and even
jibs are carried in the arsenal of many
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| Lighting Tips by Walter Graff |
An award winning,
twenty-year veteran of the film and television
industry, Walter Graff is a true multitask
thinker who works successfully in many areas
of production. Walter has directed national,
regional and local commercial content in
addition to directing short and long format,
single and multi-camera productions. Walter
is also an experienced broadcast field producer
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| Lightbreak by Jim Iacona |
Jim Iacona
is a San Francisco director of photography
working in film, HDTV and video. His work
includes commercials, corporate marketing,
sports promos and documentaries. Over the
past twenty years Jim has incorporated a
wide range of styles and lighting techniques
into his work. He has shot fashion for Levi's
and Banana Republic, comedians for HBO,
promos with Sharon Stone for A&E, music
videos and countless interviews. The one
constant in all of this work is Jim's keen
attention to lighting design . . . Click
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| Bron All Weather by Dick Smith |
There's no
getting around it; HMI's are a considerable
investment. But can you afford not to have
them in your equipment package? That's the
question I was faced with about three years
ago. My work had begun to take a turn toward
more "live" broadcasts for the
networks and increased corporate projects.
This was a change away from the daily taped
news jobs that I had been involved with
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| Zif Zoom by Ken Fuhr |
I've always
been the type of cameraman that had relied
on the lensą servo grip as the preferred
way of handling my zoom control. I have
always felt that being hunched over the
viewfinder and adding a touch of body english
was the best way to shoot interviews or
any b-roll scenarios that required the use
of a tripod. That was the way I felt. I
believe that I had an epiphany during the
sixth tape change of a Connie Chung interview
a few years back while working for ABC News
20/20 . . . Click
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