Monday, 29 September 2008

• One Busy Weekend

  No pics for this blog..maybe some video in the future.

  So this past weekend was crazy busy!

  On Saturday, my sister and bro-in-law were attending a wedding from about 3:30pm-10pm. Not too shocking, except that they have a 1-month old baby girl at home! Normally my parents would look after the baby, but they too had a party to attend from about 2pm - ?? So guess who's taking care of the baby for like 6 hours??? That's right ME! I thought I might have Eye's assistance, but it was bachelorette weekend for Annette..so I was all by my lonesome self with the baby.

  The baby and I had a pretty good time, she slept most of the time, but when she was awake..man..that was an experience. I think I changed her 5 times, and I changed her fit once (projectile pee). I also fed her THREE TIME..talk about hungry. In the end I laid her on my shoulder and put her to sleep, but i was sure hungry at the end.

  Yesterday Moonyoz and I were the videographers for the Kinney-Cease wedding in Santa Cruz. The bride is a really good friend of Mark Quijano and Mark referred us to them. So thank you Mark for the referral! It was a really nice wedding at a place called Chaminade. It was an interesting change of pace from the normal PCN, but it was 10 times harder than filming a PCN. Our day started at 8am leaving Vallejo, we got to the place at about 1230pm after stopping for a quick bite. We got into the room and did not have much to do since the photographers were there. Moon shot most of the brial prep stuff, but I think we were at a disadvantage that we didn't have a lady videographer. The photographers had three people, a guy a girl and an assistance (guy). The girl was shooting the bridal prep stuff but since the bride was actually changing, I don't think Moon was able to get in there.

  I followed the groom around and got some exterior shots. The first thing I learned, leave your stuff in one place then go back and get it. I was carrying my camera bag on my shoulder since I did not know where I would be. I could have left that thing in the room where Moon was. The second thing I learned/figured out: dragging a tripod everywhere sucks. I want really steady shots so I had my tripod (which is fairly heavy). I think I need to get a shoulder system and just leave the tripod in one spot, a nice steadicam would be bad ass.

  I won't go into everything, but the things Moon and I worked on or learned was camera placement, wireless microphones and attaching lapels, using the wireless mic system to grab audio from a mixer, shooting on a cloudy day with a bright blue background.

  Cool things about the wedding include the photobooth, the sports theme intros and pom-poms, and the "live feed." The bride's mother was in the hospital after having a surgery so she could not attend. I believe Mark setup a laptop in the hospital and used Yahoo messenger to stream video. A few people were tasked with bringing the laptop and camera around for people to say hi and for the mother to see the event. That was a very, very cool and touching thing that they were able to do.

  So that's it for now, oops, did I mention I have a 3-4000 word paper due today? I'm almost done though..have to get back to writing it now. Later!

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