Production Assistant: Tear Down a Set

Video Transcript

"Now in this clip we are learning how to tear down a studio once it has been set up and used. Now the first thing you want to do is make sure you turn off your teleprompting system which is usually located on the front of the camera and it will have just like a little switch that you turn off then once you have done that on both cameras or however many cameras they are using. Here we use two for our news. Once you do that you are going to want to pull your cameras farther towards the back to where they belong, wrap the cords up on the wall how they are supposed to be and then your cameras are set except for you are going to want to on the view finder behind the camera you are going to want to turn that down so you don't get any screen burns on your view finder. Then from there you are going to wrap up all the XLR cables that you have used which are mike cords for some of the other people who don't know the terminology. Once there you put your cables back correctly where they need to be, turn off any monitors that have been on especially if you have a plasma monitor because once again you don't want screen burn son those and then after that put your mikes away in their recording places and then from there you are pretty much done tearing down the studio. Once you are done with everything don't forget to turn off your studio lights, they do tend to get really hot especially if left on."