{"id":19602,"date":"2013-08-13T11:30:32","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T15:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/?p=19602"},"modified":"2016-05-12T15:57:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T19:57:24","slug":"dallas-crew-covers-ft-hood-trial-for-nbc-news-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/2013\/dallas-crew-covers-ft-hood-trial-for-nbc-news-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Crew Covers Ft. Hood Trial for NBC News Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_19603\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19603\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/assets.gototeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/12200640\/IMG_4643-600x337.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19603\" alt=\"NBC correspondent, Leanne Gregg, reports from Ft. Hood.\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/assets.gototeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/12200640\/IMG_4643-600x337.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19603\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NBC correspondent, Leanne Gregg, reports from Ft. Hood.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The trial of the accused Ft. Hood shooter has gotten underway.\u00a0 I headed down to Killeen, TX, home to one of the nation\u2019s largest army bases to cover the story for NBC News Channel.\u00a0 I was shooting on the Panasonic HDX-900.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19604\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19604\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/assets.gototeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/12200640\/IMG_4626-300x168.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19604\" alt=\"Leanne Gregg prepares to do some &quot;Tags&quot; in the early, early morning.\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/assets.gototeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/12200640\/IMG_4626-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19604\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leanne Gregg prepares to do some &#8220;Tags&#8221; in the early, early morning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Our first few days were spent outside the main gate of the base.\u00a0 My call time was a bit on the early side, 2am to be exact.\u00a0 Yikes.\u00a0 My first setup was literally in the middle of the night.\u00a0 I used a 400w HMI with a Chimera attached to light my subject.\u00a0 I then used an 800w HMI to light the main Ft. Hood welcome sign.\u00a0 Once the sun came up I killed the 800w HMI, took off the Chimera that was attached to the 400w HMI, and then set up another 400w HMI to evenly light my subject.\u00a0 Once I had my light situation taken care of I added a scrim to block the sun from creating harsh shadows on my correspondent.\u00a0 We did live shots here for two days.<\/p>\n<p>My final day covering the trial was done on the base. \u00a0We were escorted to the media center parking lot where other crews were set up.\u00a0 Luckily we didn\u2019t have the super early call time we did the other day.\u00a0 I used two 400w HMI\u2019s to light my correspondent.\u00a0 We had some nice natural shade from a couple of trees.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t set up the scrim I normally would.\u00a0 Instead, I used a silk from my trust Road Rags kit to limit the light that hit my subject from above.<\/p>\n<p>Before I knew it the time had come to pack up and hit the road for Dallas.\u00a0 It\u2019s always a pleasure working for NBC News Channel and I can\u2019t wait to do it again.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a link to one of the many packages my stand up was used in: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.necn.com\/08\/06\/13\/Fort-Hood-trial-gets-underway-with-Nidal\/landing.html?blockID=848651\">Fort Hood Trial Gets Underway<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trial of the accused Ft. Hood shooter has gotten underway.\u00a0 I headed down to Killeen, TX, home to one of the nation\u2019s largest army bases to cover the story for NBC News Channel.\u00a0 I was shooting on the Panasonic HDX-900. Our first few days were spent outside the main gate of the base.\u00a0 My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":24610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,12,140],"tags":[109,2269,1991,2270,72,138],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19602"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}