First days on a job (by Severi)

The first days with the cameraman-crew are now behind and I suppose it’s time to reflect upon them. On monday we had a chance to follow the shooting of a live news broadcast as well as sports broadcast done in a virtual studio. The camera-work in on itself wasn’t anything out of an ordinary, except for the uncomfortably large headroom that is a norm here. I was later explained that it was because of the live feed - people might move far more than expected and with a narrower headroom it might look uncomfortable. Later during the first day we had a chance to do some camerawork, as we were following the live broadcast of a weekly talk-show. The director agreed to speak english on the command feed and things went without a problem. I immediately fell in love with the smoothness of the studio cameras - they move ever so lightly and the drives you could potentially do with them… well, imaginary is the only boundary. We were also allowed to play around with the crane during the breaks from the show, which was great fun as well. We started the second day early in the morning, as we went to follow the broadcast of a daily morning show. It was done with only three cameras, but we had our chance to bump in and assist the cameramen in their duty. Compared to the day before, it was nothing special, but all new experience is necessary. After the daily morning show we had an hour and a half for lunch break before observing the news-broadcast later in the afternoon, after which we were free to leave for the day. Tomorrow we are going to see a local football match, which is said to possible contain a lot of hooliganism, should be an exciting sight to behold.