ABSTRACT
This chapter examines what one can expect from the most expensive top-of-the-line production center and crew complement. It would be most unusual to encounter this kind of facility and crew on a first job or at a learning facility. When such a studio is used for a multiple-camera shoot, a truck is usually brought alongside the facility, and the truck's control room is used as it would be at a remote location. In 1969, when men landed on the Moon, the camera was on the Moon and the control room was in Houston, Texas. The UCLA film school did just that, many years ago, when it expanded its television production facility. The facility has sufficient and convenient outlets to furnish electricity to the lighting instruments. If sufficient outlets are not available, cable may have to be rented along with a kind of ultra-heavy-duty extension cord and a juncture called a gang box, or distribution panel, to fulfill the production's needs.
