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So, You Want to be a Cameraman

Freelance cameraman Danny Zemanek

So, You Want to be a Cameraman

I’ve often wondered how someone gets their start these days, if they’re aspiring to work in the video industry. Where does one acquire the knowledge and the skill? How can you get that first big break? Certainly the colleges, universities and trade schools provide a comprehensive background, teaching a little bit of everything involving audio and video— but rarely concentrating on specific marketable skills.

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Robe BMFL

Robe BMFL

I just spent two straight hours playing with this remarkable new fixture from Robe, the fine Czech Republic manufacturer of quality lighting fixtures. The latest in their series of hard-edged spot fixtures is cleverly called the BMFL, which stands for Bright Multi-Functional Luminaire. This fixture is so unique in the way that it projects textures that it took me all that time just to glance at all the amazing designer macros in this fixture and the fact that I’m playing with a whole new beast of a light here, not another clone of a typical spot fixture. This fixture has every bell and whistle of all the other spot fixtures I have used, rolled into one.

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A special insert lets the MTN Box adapt to newer models of CM hoists, which are about three inches longer than traditional hoists

Mountain Productions MTN Box

Mountain Productions, the legendary staging and rigging company based in Wilkes-Barre, PA, has come up with the ultimate road case designed for housing chain hoists. Being a certified CM dealer brought around the necessity for a stronger case. According to Mountain Productions’ Marty Wesstrom, “the average motor case takes quite a beating on the road and obviously does not have a long life. We designed this specific road case with the idea that hopefully it will be the last one you will ever need to transfer your motors and other products.”

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Blinded By the Light

Programming automated lighting requires much more than just pressing buttons on a console. A good understanding of the lighting fixtures and their capabilities is equally as important. In addition, the consideration of the effects of the lighting programming must be considered and evaluated during the programming sessions. The positions of the lights, the actions of the fixture parameters, and environmental conditions all can have an effect on your programming.

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Illustration by Andy Au

Club Rules 101

This month’s LD-at-Large is Stosh Rickenbach, longtime house LD at the original Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco. He’s glad to help, but you have to give him a fighting chance. He has some guidelines that each club band should follow to ensure a well lit show. Good luck with that, Stosh. —ed.

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The Dec. 12 event drew more than 400 people in the entertainment industry and raised more than $10,000 in toys and donations for Austin Children’s Shelter and SafePlace

Soundcheck Austin Partners with SHS Global on Annual Toy Drive

AUSTIN, TX — The fifth annual SoundCheck Austin Toy Drive and Holiday Party, held Dec. 12, drew more than 400 people in the entertainment industry and raised more than $10,000 in toys and donations for Austin Children’s Shelter and SafePlace, non-profit organizations that support victims of domestic violence and provide for the needs of homeless children.

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NanoLumens, GPT Group at Melbourne Central

NanoLumens Installs Its Largest Suspended Display Solutions at GPT Group’s Melbourne Central

ATLANTA, GA – For its opening act in an Australian retail mall, NanoLumens (www.nanolumens.com) couldn’t have chosen a better — or bigger — stage than this. The world’s leading manufacturer and marketer of indoor LED visual display solutions today announced that it has installed its largest double-sided NanoSlim LED portrait sized display in the atrium of Melbourne Central, which is owned and operated by The GPT Group (www.gpt.com.au), one of Australia’s largest diversified listed property groups.

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