What does a reality TV director do?
A reality TV director mimics what used to take place classically in the studios. At CBS Television City they have these big control rooms, and they have all these feeds and monitors. What reality tends to do is they tend to get these remote video trucks that are not quite filled with just as many bells and whistles, but they have feeds from the different cameras, and everybody’s on a PL listening to the director. They do mimic what takes place. It’s sort of a portable studio. Reality TV has to be out somewhere real and not on the stage, unless you’re doing a reality show about the stage. The reality TV director is the modern day version of a studio director. A lot of them do both. The director is often calling cameras. He’s often doing what we call a line-cut, which is laying down the cut cameras into a master tape, but that won’t necessarily be the cut that we keep at the end. The reality TV director has a little bit less authority than the classic TV director did, because there are p
