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HOW TO BECOME A CAMERAMAN
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How to become a cameraman. We asked real-life cameramen to tell their stories, how they did it, how they got where they are and how they plan to stay there.
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Insight into Television "So you want to be a TV news camera operator, yes? Travel around the globe to exotic places and show the world’s viewing audience your contribution?" |
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Read how cameramen begun:
- Marc Curtis "I started out in radio in 1968 at age 17"
- Joe Yaggi "Looking back over the journey that brought me here to Bali and Asia, I see the evolution of a cameraman in a most unexpected way"
- Russell Baxter "I was deeply involved with a sport and we had no coaches so we occasionally hired a 16mm film cameraman"
- Nigel "Nige" Fox "I just kind of fell in it really!"
- Tony "How did I choose my vocation? I didn't, it chose me. "
- Barry Paton "Do you want the long or the short version?". I'll make this the medium version"
- Chris Matlock "It was a dark and stormy night......."
- Kerry Du Pont "Ever since I was a kid, television had always fascinated me"
Additional Links. Links to training, universities and job finding websites
Breaking into the film and Video business By the Society of Camera Operators
The "Art of Seeing" by Wynn Selwynn. "We often look, but we seldom see"
"Reputations are earned by being able to handhold a camera well - reputations are kept by putting it back on the tripod!"
David Drinkwater, Senior cameraman, TV2 Hamilton NZ.
(Thanks to Laurie Gilbert for the quote)
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