- So hi, I'm Tommy Bruno.
I'm one of the studio production supervisors
here at PBS Wisconsin.
And I'm currently standing
in front of the Quick Fit set in Studio A.
And I'm standing in front of the jib,
which is a unique piece of equipment
that we have here at PBS Wisconsin
that allows us to get a pretty unique shot.
The jib itself is made up of a bunch of different parts.
It's got a tripod that's got wheels so that we can move it,
and then on top of the tripod, there's a pivot point
so that we can jib back and forth
and boom up and down with the boom,
which sits on the pivot point.
And on the end of the boom is a camera cradle,
where the camera sits.
The boom itself is made up of shorter pieces of pipe
that are all bolted together.
We can make it as short as six feet
or as long as 24 feet.
In order to get the camera to float like that,
we need to put weights on the back end
to counterbalance the weight of the boom and the camera.
So it's 160 pounds on the back of this right now.
There are pan and tilt controls that are on this joystick here.
If I move it up and down,
you can see the camera tilting up and down.
And then if I move it back and forth,
that pans it right and left.
Since it's on that camera cradle,
it can turn almost 360 degrees.
It allows you to get continuous shots.
Panning around, you can get some vantage points
that you wouldn't normally get.
And there are zoom controls on this other handle here,
so we can zoom in and out.
The focus controls, where I can set my focus.
One of my favorite shows to run the jib on
is the 30-Minute Music Hour .
The bands are in a wide-open space
that allows you to get a lot of dramatic shots,
and you can plan your shots
along with the tempo of the music.
You get to do a lot of variety shots
in a short, half-hour time period.
So if it's a slow, acoustic number,
you can do a slow, sweeping jib or a pan and a jib.
It packs up into six or seven different cases
and get those in the van, haul it off to wherever we're going,
and then we can put it back together.
Either it be in a balcony at the Overture Center
or if we're doing Concerts on the Square out on the lawn.
[classical music]