Showlight

When we were first informed that we would be attending Showlight over the weekend I must admit it took the edge off the excitement for me -not being a big fan of missing out onmy weekly break. However, I was still looking forward to the experience.
Gavin, Paul and myself were stationed on camera for the first two days of the event. On arriving at the BBC I'm not confident that many people at the BBC were aware of the specifics of the Showlight Event -and indeed our involvement in it. However, after we were acquainted with our two camera 'mentors' everything started to fall into place.
I was fairly intimidated, at first, by the look of some of the (more advanced) equipment but on closer inspection it quickly became apparent that the basic operation of the kit was the same to that we had already used. And for the kit that we hadn't encounter at all before, we picked up their operation pretty quickly.
I really enjoyed the event on the Saturday, when the real work kicked in. It was a really useful thing to get to experience a different kind of shooting. In contrast to our usuall single camera short films there was far more pressure and immediacy to the production. That little bit of extra pressure to get framed and focused up before the director cut to your cam was quite a nice change in pace.
Although I still prefer the (slightly) more relaxed pace of single camera film shooting I found that I enjoyed the Studio system a lot more than I thought I would.
I was slightly dissapointed that when I circulated round to 'Vision' that all I could do was sit in a chair and wathc the event unfold -But it was nice to get a rest after camera.