fun fun fun! :P okay, a bit tiring as well, but had a marvellous time shooting this corporate video for a business unit. First half was the management coming together to do skit for the division dinner. It's a pretty innovative skit, not too much over-the-top motivational and corporate romanticism i.e."I love my job and will sell out my life to the company!" :p it's peppered with enough information and drama to keep the staff mesmerised for that short 25-30 mins, i guess. Can't wait to see how it will turn out after my friend finished editing the footage...
Second half needed to go around the company taking video shots of the people at work. Haha, quite fun to see my 2 friends directing and shooting the footage. One was the camera-person, while the other was the director. Most of the time, the director just gives the direction while the camera-person just rolls the tape. But even that is very challenging, as they have to keep to the schedule, keep to the script, think of how to direct the scene, look at whether the actors have looked into the camera, whether the actors had it just right, answer the clients' questions and a thousand and one other things...
Me? I just followed them around, being the "monkey boy"*. That's what being a grip is all about. Think of it as an out-door, all-purpose stage hand. Not much mental thinking, save for taking notes of how my 2 friends did the direction and the filming. after-all, that's also what i'm there for, to learn from them.
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*not derogatory. In fact, in slang, it means "an otherwise capable individual who is tasked with repetitive or simplistic chores"
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_%28disambiguation%29
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