Author Topic: CALLING: Calling the camera shots on Grease Live!  (Read 3457 times)

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CALLING: Calling the camera shots on Grease Live!
« on: Feb 02, 2016, 03:10 am »
This is fascinating

https://www.facebook.com/carrie.havel/videos/10153418696832898/?fref=nf

Holy toledo.....she is live counting down through the entire song.

Here's the split screen so you can see what she's calling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP2QOmN57iU&sns=fb

so so cool!

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Re: Calling the camera shots on Grease Live!
« Reply #1 on: Feb 03, 2016, 05:27 pm »
This video is a game changer, and is going to inspire many a theatrical SM to upgrade their music calling skills. Since I've never called shots on a TV show (live or otherwise) I had a good time trying to pick out what the shot "go" calls actually were, among the measure counts and beat counts. But not only does the person calling cues have to be at the top of their game, the person actually executing the change of shots has to be a great listener, as do the camera operators, who have to know when their camera is live or not live, in order to execute their change of position, focus and angles between shots. This is the epitome of mad skills and teamwork!

Here's the split screen version, so that you can see the shots as she calls them:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP2QOmN57iU
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Re: Calling the camera shots on Grease Live!
« Reply #2 on: Feb 03, 2016, 06:06 pm »
I must have watched this video 15 times yesterday. So so so cool.
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