Okay, I have a crew question, strictly to quench my own curiosity.

I was driving past my local tv station this morning where they do the weather forcast outside. They have this whole set-up out there with large blazing lights.

Now, I was wondering, if it's a beautiful, bright sunny day, what are the lights for. Do they make that much of a difference? Do you have much control over lighting if you are taping outside?

Also, do you guys use lights when you are taping a regular, everyday, episode of DJ or do you just grab your cameras and run where the action is? From what I saw of the 150th, you had a mixture of both but we all know that wasn't an average taping kind of day.

Thanks!

Fleur

Fleur-

We had lights at the 150th to light a larger scene and to keep Doug interested.

We usually just have small lights on the camera to light faces otherwise on a "normal" shoot. Some times, like in a coal or salt mine for instance, we will bring small, but high-intensity lights to light a large, dark area.

In the case of your local news, they use those lights to brighten the on camera talent so light on them closely matches the light in the background. Otherwise, if the camera is exposed for the talent, the background will be blown out- all white- and vise versa.

Dave

Thanks for the answer, Dave. These are questions that pop into my head occasionally, but I never have anyone who would know enough to answer.

I truly appreciate the behind the scenes look!

Fleur

~ Doug likes shiny things too? Who knew?!