ABSTRACT
The control room is where the production team responsible for organizing and recording the show works. This includes the director, a technical director, the lighting designer, various show producers, graphics operators, and an entire video engineering team. It is here that the program is assembled, either as a live broadcast or webcast that is aired immediately to viewers as the show is being shot, or as separate recordings of each camera’s shots, which will later be compiled and edited to be the final program. A dedicated studio facility will have a permanently installed control room, while a large production that is shooting on-location in a non-studio environment will utilize a mobile television production truck that has all the elements of a studio control room built into a highly customized semi-trailer that can measure over 50 feet in length. If a truck is too large or expensive for a particular production, a portable control room, called a flypack, is set up somewhere in the building or site of the production. A familiarity with the workings of the control room is essential knowledge for the LD, to know as much about the professional production environment as possible.
