Video village is a necessary part of any film set and as a camera assistant you will most likely be put in charge of it. You're the town planner, so to speak, and the director is the mayor. Try your best to keep the traffic unclogged, the streets clean, and you will good to go. In the old days of film, the only person who got to see what was happening in the frame was the camera operator. The director was usually not this person since the cameras were bulky and complex mechanical machines. So what did the director do? They trusted their crew to get the shot they wanted. And screened dailies. And if the director’s vision didn’t align with the celluloid frames, well, someone would have to pay. In came the modern invention of the monitor. No longer were the eyes behind the production blind to the frame of the film. Like a frontiersmen weary from the travels of a worn down trail, this new generation of filmmakers slowly built up a civilization in the wild west of film monitoring. And thus video village was formed.
