Directing and director's calls

The job of the director is to make sure the show runs smoothly and to inform everybody on what they need to be doing and where they need to be doing it, this involves a lot of communicating with other members of the crew, and the speed of how everything runs in a live TV show means that its best for the director to spend as little time As possible communicating with the crew members. So to help this there are certain terms that are used the the crew must learn to save time. These are:

Cam No cut - this is a term used for the vision mixer, the director will say a cam number and the vision mixer has to get ready to switch to that shot when the director says switch

Roll VT - this is just an instruction to the DVD operator to roll the DVD.

The other terms used by the director are all to do with the camera operators and are featured in the camera shots and moves section of my blog.