By distantsignal on Skatehive
Well, well, well. The Chair and I meet again, and yes, by "The Chair" I mean the one for the Captain, and by "captain" I mean camera director. Did you think I meant something with real consequences? Please! I am not qualified to command a power armored platoon, an aquatic or space fairing vessel. Pictured below is where I sat. The laptop runs VMix and powers my ability to switch live and stream. The 19 inch Atomos with the quad spilt recorded four of our cameras in isolation, so even if I made a bad switch, it could be fixed in post. The little Atomos monitor recorded program and the big TV in the back was just a mirror of my VMix interface so people behind me could see what I was doing. While house director for Big Brother US, I used to joke with my friend who was lead director about "The Chair". We'd joke about the power that went to our heads, getting to direct men like machines from behind a wall of cathode ray tubes. On BB, we had dueling house directors, splitting up as many as t