Tense… I was so tense…

I want to talk more about my very first studio video project. Eloy's project rehearsal was about to begin, all the production crew members were on their position. Hey, wait a second, "where is the Cam 3 operator?" everyone was wondering, especially our director Eloy. The group list indicated that the Cam 3 operator supposed to be Jason, but he's gone. Claire (she's on Cam 1) and I were ready to roll the cameras, Jason was not there. After couple times of calling of Jason's name, no one was responding. The show must go on, so the teacher asked if any one would like to fill-in that position, David Pasol, who supposed to be the floor person was replacing Jason as the Cam 3 operator.

Good! Everyone's ready! "Ready black, take black… Ready color bars, take color bars, take tone…" (which can be simplified as "ready bars and tone, take bars and tone." Obviously we didn't know that at that time.) Maybe many of us were operating the equipment the first time, so we were looked nervous and had many errors for the first take, the second take was actually a good take but the sound / music could be better. We concentrated to do our jobs, so the last take (each director was allowed to have three takes on his / her project) of Eloy's project was pretty good, both Eloy and Arthur (the teacher) were happy with that.

Eloy's project rehearsal was completed, all of us applauded loudly. But it's just a beginning…