Vision Mixer

The first week of assessment for hello riverina i was the vision mixer. There were two people i had to listen to when vision mixing and they were the director and directors assistant. The directors assistant would say what camera needed to be ready next so i knew which camera to cue up. I then had to listen to the director to tell me when to take the shot. Working the desk was fairly easy. The top row showed what was on the program and the row underneath was for cueing up a camera. Then there was the cut button and the lever used for dissolves. Those were the only ones i used. Under suggestion of the director i pulled apart my script and layed it out so i didnt have to keep flipping pages. After the stagger through, the director said with the news that i could pretty much cut it myself using the script which was good because it kept the room a bit more quiet so people could only hear the DA speaking. Another thing i learned was to not cut to tapes until i saw a picture otherwise it would cut to black for a second which didnt look to good. The hardest part was the interview where the director improvised the cuts. When i was cutting, i was looking at the screen too much and sometimes forgot which camera was which but i got used to it the more i did it. So if the director and the DA worked well that helped me work well.