Its Gotta Be Black

A good portion of our live event production work involved providing amplification of live television events for audiences. It was exciting work and live television was a real challenge. I loved it.

We still occasionally do this sort of work and I had a recent ephiphany about something that had always bothered me these events.

No matter how “high end” the video production company we were working with, they would constantly string orange and yellow extension cords all over the event site. Everything else in their equipment package was always top quality, but all their power cables looked like they were pulled off the shelves at Home Depot. It was the sort of thing that you would never see in a theatrical or concert setting.

It finally dawned on me that these vidiots could only see what the camera saw. Any cable that was invisible to the lens (read-the director) was invisible to them. They really had no interest in what the live audience saw. Their audience was the television audience and if the cable couldn’t bee seen through the lens, these guys assumed that it was invisible.

One of reasons for starting buyextensioncords.com was because it was so difficult to find high quality, well made extension cords. We offer heavy gauge (12 GA) cables, medium gauge (14GA) cables and Electratrac MultiOutlet cables, all in black.

If you want to be sure that your power cables are all but invisible to the audience, then “its gotta be black“.

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