Wind of Something Fun: Soccer and talk-shows! (by Miko)

Hello! Past days have been really interesting! Working at the Slovenia RTV is really fun and teaching. Not to mention the atmosphere the place has. Everyone working there, that we have been in touch with, has been really awesome and have answered whatever questions we might have.

Yesterday we were at biggest stadium in Ljubljana watching a soccer match... from a control room! It was a portable control room which was built inside car of a truck. Soccer was shot with 8 cameras from various angles and some of the cameras were slowmotion cameras, so that they could replay some events as slowmotion. The equipment they had was impressive. We didn't get to shoot any of the shots, because they only had a limited amount of cameras, so we only observed the process from the control room, which was really interesting! I realized, that filming of a soccer match, or any sport is much harder than it seems. You'd have to know the rules and focus all the time on a job, that you're given.

(Sorry no pictures from the soccer match, because i'm really bad at remembering things...)

Today we went to Tv-station early in the morning to film a talk-show called Midnight Club. It wasn't a live show. The show will be shown at midnight on Fridays. We got to film with only one camera. We shot two episodes of it. First I was on the camera for the first episode and then Severi filmed the second one. We were given a camera, that only takes a close-up on a host, so we didn't get to do anything special, only panning the camera so the host has room at the line of sight. Length of one episode was 70 minutes, so that makes it over an hour. It was actually pretty numbing to take only close-up for over an hour, but I'm not complaining. It was fun nevertheless.

And then... Pictures! (Yes I remembered to take couple of pictures from the studio)