Production Assistant: Intercom

Video Transcript

"Now in this segment we're going to learn what an intercom is and how to hook it up properly and use it. Now this here is your intercom box, this is going to let you hear and be heard by the director, and anyone else who is using the intercom system. Now what you're first going to notice is you obviously have different inputs on the bottom for different things. You want to take your headset, which obviously you're going to use. And this has a microphone on it as well so you can be heard. So you take your headset, and as you can see this has five holes in it, and there's an input here that has five prongs. Doesn't take a dummy to figure this one out. Put the five holes in the five prongs and then you have your headset already to use. Now from there you're going to notice that you have two other holes, you're going to need an input for your intercom, that way you can hear every one and they can hear you. Good thing you'll have a cord from your intercom box, which is usually located on the wall. A separate intercom box from this one actually. So you're going to have your cord from that, you'll want to obviously, this one has three prongs in it, there's an input here that has three holes in it. Once again we all learned that the square doesn't go in the circle. So put those in, you're all set. From there if you want to talk, you hit the talk button. And usually a light will come on. Or sometimes the light is burnt out. And from there you can talk, you can hear the producer, the director. Which ever they want you to do, so that way they can tell you your camera movements, whether you have to pan, zoom, tilt, anything like that."