This is a bit of a rant, but also a question. I had a show last night where the company paying for the show hired a low bid group of video guys to do a web broadcast live. I'm running lighting for this show.
We have everything set up by 11, which is when the video crew shows up. At this point I'm setting up some looks and some effects for the rear LEDs and movers. We go and get lunch, come back ans finish the looks I thought I was going to use to busk the show. At 2 we send the video guys a 1k signal at 0dB at the console. We tell them that this will be our average signal and to be prepared for peaks of up to 15dB over that.
This is when they start demanding things. That was unaccaptable and they needed the average to be -12 for broadcast. I ask weather they mean is full scale digital or in analog dbu. Deer in the headlights look. At 3 they want to check the spots for white balance. Vinnie (facility manager, great guy) tells them we have spot ops coming at 4 could you do it then. Vinnie is told no we must do this NOW. Vinnie climbs the stairs and turns the spots on for them. Video gut then goes up and puts the spots "where they need to be".
At 4 he walks up to me and asks if ive ever lit for video before. Yes i have, we broadcast the step show all over campus. He tells me that I obveously haven't as what I have won't work. I HAVE to pull all of the red, amber and magenta off the front. Also, I cant use purple, pink, red, magenta, mauve, orange, amber, or any warm colors b/c "they just don't translate well to video". (But green is no problem, b/c looking like they're a zombie or a cancer patient is no where near as bad as looking a little orange, whatever). Also beams from the movers cant go in front of the artist.
When the spot ops show up, union spot ops, great guys, always do an excellent job, they are told not to touch the spots as the video guy has them exactly where he wants them.
30 minutes after doors, he comes up to me and wants the front batten raised 8 feet, with people sitting within 8 feet of the plane the batten is on. I tell him flat out: NO, it is a saftey issue. He throws a tempur tantrum and starts bitching to the manager for the show who complains to the campus event coordinator who has to call Vinnie. We had to clear the front section to move it.
Am I off base or am I correct in thinking that warm colors look fine on video? Fun fact about the venue. There are over 800 lekos and fresnels in the grid all of which are 1k or 2k. We could have used some of those instead of hiring 4 spot ops to do nothing.
We have everything set up by 11, which is when the video crew shows up. At this point I'm setting up some looks and some effects for the rear LEDs and movers. We go and get lunch, come back ans finish the looks I thought I was going to use to busk the show. At 2 we send the video guys a 1k signal at 0dB at the console. We tell them that this will be our average signal and to be prepared for peaks of up to 15dB over that.
This is when they start demanding things. That was unaccaptable and they needed the average to be -12 for broadcast. I ask weather they mean is full scale digital or in analog dbu. Deer in the headlights look. At 3 they want to check the spots for white balance. Vinnie (facility manager, great guy) tells them we have spot ops coming at 4 could you do it then. Vinnie is told no we must do this NOW. Vinnie climbs the stairs and turns the spots on for them. Video gut then goes up and puts the spots "where they need to be".
At 4 he walks up to me and asks if ive ever lit for video before. Yes i have, we broadcast the step show all over campus. He tells me that I obveously haven't as what I have won't work. I HAVE to pull all of the red, amber and magenta off the front. Also, I cant use purple, pink, red, magenta, mauve, orange, amber, or any warm colors b/c "they just don't translate well to video". (But green is no problem, b/c looking like they're a zombie or a cancer patient is no where near as bad as looking a little orange, whatever). Also beams from the movers cant go in front of the artist.
When the spot ops show up, union spot ops, great guys, always do an excellent job, they are told not to touch the spots as the video guy has them exactly where he wants them.
30 minutes after doors, he comes up to me and wants the front batten raised 8 feet, with people sitting within 8 feet of the plane the batten is on. I tell him flat out: NO, it is a saftey issue. He throws a tempur tantrum and starts bitching to the manager for the show who complains to the campus event coordinator who has to call Vinnie. We had to clear the front section to move it.
Am I off base or am I correct in thinking that warm colors look fine on video? Fun fact about the venue. There are over 800 lekos and fresnels in the grid all of which are 1k or 2k. We could have used some of those instead of hiring 4 spot ops to do nothing.
