NecroJoe
Stool Chef
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*laughs* I've been there (both the camera guy, and the person catching a camera guy doing something inappropriate.) I used to work with the AV department at my high-school (yeah...I know...)
Quick story: we used to videotape the school board meetings and broadcast live on our school's cable TV station.
One day, I was the "producer" while two other students operated cameras, and one was the "sound guy." We all had headsets with microphones to speak to each other.
There was a segment where the choir teacher was speaking. She was...we'll say...she fit the stereotypical cartoon opera singer's physique....
Anyways, I'm watching her in stereo on both camera's monitors, and the sound guy behind me in the control room says "Man...she doesn't look good on camera."
I then said "Well...they say the camera adds 15 lbs...how many cameras do we have on dis bitch?"
At that point, the sound guy behind me breaks up in laughter, I see the cameras shaking, and you can hear the two camera operators holding back laughter because...they are in the same room as the school board meeting.
A few moments later, the laughs die down a bit, and just as the choir teacher sits down, I say "If the camera adds 15 lbs, maybe she should stop fucking eating cameras." (George Carlin, I think)
At that point, one camera goes dead (apparently, the guy ran backwards out of the room to avoid laughing out loud, and he tripped over the video feed cable, unplugging it. The 2nd camera operator fell back in her chair, allowing the camera to dive down to showing the ground, not knowing the other camera was out. We have 1:30 of dead-air while things get sorted out.
To avoid getting into trouble, runner-tripper guy said he was feeling sick and was running out of the room to puke, and camera-dropper girl said that his nearly-throwing-up made her gag, and that's why she let the camera crash-pan down to the ground.
After that night, those two camera operators banned me from the production room during events, and never told the teacher/head of the department why they always wanted me out on camera.
Quick story: we used to videotape the school board meetings and broadcast live on our school's cable TV station.
One day, I was the "producer" while two other students operated cameras, and one was the "sound guy." We all had headsets with microphones to speak to each other.
There was a segment where the choir teacher was speaking. She was...we'll say...she fit the stereotypical cartoon opera singer's physique....
Anyways, I'm watching her in stereo on both camera's monitors, and the sound guy behind me in the control room says "Man...she doesn't look good on camera."
I then said "Well...they say the camera adds 15 lbs...how many cameras do we have on dis bitch?"
At that point, the sound guy behind me breaks up in laughter, I see the cameras shaking, and you can hear the two camera operators holding back laughter because...they are in the same room as the school board meeting.
A few moments later, the laughs die down a bit, and just as the choir teacher sits down, I say "If the camera adds 15 lbs, maybe she should stop fucking eating cameras." (George Carlin, I think)
At that point, one camera goes dead (apparently, the guy ran backwards out of the room to avoid laughing out loud, and he tripped over the video feed cable, unplugging it. The 2nd camera operator fell back in her chair, allowing the camera to dive down to showing the ground, not knowing the other camera was out. We have 1:30 of dead-air while things get sorted out.
To avoid getting into trouble, runner-tripper guy said he was feeling sick and was running out of the room to puke, and camera-dropper girl said that his nearly-throwing-up made her gag, and that's why she let the camera crash-pan down to the ground.
After that night, those two camera operators banned me from the production room during events, and never told the teacher/head of the department why they always wanted me out on camera.