Trust me, A director would not call for for that to happen. Unless he’s as incompotent as some of the ones I work with.

Fail on Calling a Fail on a Fail.

Source: I worked in broadcasting for 8 years and have witnessed various TDs make tons of mistakes similar to this one.

I wish I had video of the day we were supposed to open the newscast with the anchors at the chroma key wall (green screen) with a graphic behind them… but instead, the TD opened with the camera aimed at the news desk — and nobody sitting there, just 2 empty chairs! He got so flustered, he then went to the “raw” feed of the right camera — meaning he had anchors, but no graphic behind them, just that big ugly green wall. Seconds later, like magic, the graphic just “appeared.” Classic.

In studio news production, there are generally three cameras: one pointing at each anchor, and one wide shot showing both of them. (You saw the wide one a split second before the end of the video.)

Generally the director is supposed to say “Ready two…take two” to advise the cameraman he should be paying attention and getting a shot ready, then to tell the person sitting at the switcher console to switch it.

Looks like the person at the console hit the wrong button.

Not that anyone but morons and monkeys read and write most of the comments anyway.

Notice how the camera doesn’t swing over to the second anchor.

The people in the control room are in charge of what shots are appearing on TV, they program which cameras to queue up on screen. Usually the anchors have a TV for themselves to see exactly what’s going on, so that’s probably what happened. ^^ the control room fell asleep!