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Re: "On The Buses" filming techniques?
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6th Jun 2012, 1:43 pm | #22 |
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Re: "On The Buses" filming techniques?
You have to remember that crewing levels were very different in those days. An OB nowadays usually just means a small sat truck with a couple of blokes inside, plus some small OPO cameras. Late 60s OBs involved huge convoys of specialized trucks and buses.
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Re: "On The Buses" filming techniques?
LWT's OB'standardised on the IVC7000 series of cameras. They also had a small handheld LDK13 - maybe that was used on some of the OTB location shots?
Here's a shot of it being used during 'Upstairs Downstairs' http://www.updown.org.uk/behind/bsshoot2.htm |
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Re: "On The Buses" filming techniques?
Steve, I wasn't referring to a major event like the Jubilee or Wimbledon. I'm sure you will agree that the crewing levels even on such major events are massively lower than they would have been 40 years ago. Of course, this means people are now working much harder than in the days when they were lugging huge tube cameras about
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Re: "On The Buses" filming techniques?
Even a small OB like a footy match has a scanner that's at least three times bigger than the old 70's vehicles.
But back to film inserts.... Does anyone from the BBC remember TARIF? I think the acronym was something like Television Apparatus for Rectification of Inferior Film. This was used (I believe) to lessen the differences discussed previously. Not used on On The Buses, obviously. Steve.
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Re: "On The Buses" filming techniques?
The differences were enevitable, as most (if not all) of the location material was shot on 16mm negative (reversal stock might have been used) then that was transferred to print stock. The transfer to television would have been done on Cintel Mk2 telecines. The end result always looked poor when print stock was used. Reversal stock was far better overal, apart from the high contrast it had.
At the time of when this series was made. Things like colour grading tape material was just a dream, as the PAL coding/decoding process introduced a lot of unwanted artifacts. along with a poor resolution. It was rare for the telecine operator to see material that their material was going into, so the colour grading was made to obtain a good image, rather than a good match to the studio output. Even if they did, if you take into account what was said in the first paragraph. The chances of getting close was small. With the coming of Cintel MKIII's, the Fernseh FDL60 along with the technique of direct transfer from negative, it was possible to get results that matched (and in many cases surpassed) video cameras of the day. It was the late 70's that this ball started rolling. |