Director & directors calls

In any type of production, a director is needed as he is the main person in charge and will know everything that is going on in the show, and will direct crew members etc in what they need to be doing, generally though the director communicates through the floor manager and the floor manager is the one who will direct the talent, hosts and guests so that the director can concentrate on the camera operators, and make sure that they know what is going on and to also make sure that any shots that the camera operator is thinking of doing look good. The director will generally need to try and keep things short, so uses director calls to explain what he needs from what crew member or talent at any particular time.

Here are some examples of the type of director calls you would generally hear if part of a TV Show production;

DVD Ready

- To ask for the next DVD to be prepared, the director will say to the DVD operator "next DVD" and once this is done DVD operator will respond with"DVD ready" to signal to the director that the clip on the DVD is ready to go.

Floor Ready

- This is the call the director says to F.M to ensure the floor including the crew, talent, etc. is ready to record.

Roll VT

- This is the call the director uses to address both the DVD operator and the vision mixer so that they both know that its time to run the DVD Player and play the VT Insert for that part of the show, the vision mixer should however wait a second or so after hearing this instruction before cutting to the DVD player so it allows time for the DVD operator to hit the play button on the DVD Player.