Anyone who has ever spent an extended period of time in a television news studioeither on the floor or in the control roomwill know, and have come to secretly love, the musical qualities of its internal rhythms. Directions are relayed, like a song-in-the-round, through a network of headsets to floor managers, camera operators, lighting designers and others. The expletive-laden banter of camera operators harmonises with the technical-sounding directions of the control room to zoom in, tilt down and pan left. Talk of gels and wattage and tungsten lamps are melody to the bass line, grunted by the director to the vision mixer, to take one, take two, take three. And then there’s the extended solo of the news anchor: a half-hour aria with a diva-mentality to match.
ChamberMade’s Crossing Live, which unfolds in a kind of heightened real time over the course of a particularly disastrous taping of an invented television current affairs program, The Day Report, takes the inherent music of the television news studio and sets it to, well, music. Written by Matthew Saville, whose debut feature film, Noise, was an extended investigation into the intricacies of sound, with...
To view and download this full PLR article, you must be logged in. Registration is completely free. Once you create your account, you will be able to browse, search & downlod from our PLR articles database of over "1,57,897+" on 1,000's of niches and 200+ categories without paying a penny. Click here to signup...
