Week 9

15 Dec 2014

Good Morning everyone . 

In the morning it was raining heavily so we just hang around and tidy up the trailer and matthew while i set up the event live feed. After lunch we pack the sand into bags and double wrap them to prevent spillage. Early christmas present for anyone. 

After that we help the english christmassing props department. We transport their props from the dungeon to mark.

In total today we have 2 shows, in the afternoon for the show I was the engineer. I was controlling the exposure. I getting use to this role very often because I have been in this roles for numerous times.

Here is the show.

In the evening, I was the TD, It is my first time that i was the TD. It was pretty nerve wrecking at the start because I wasnt really confident but soon i grow into it and get the hang of it and manage to cut to what the director want more easily.

Unfortunately for this show, the stream for youtube doesnt work. It hangs halfway. 

Here is the link to it .

Moving on because we were having some hiccups with the tricaster we decide to stay in abit later to trouble shot it . Thankfully we were able to do it. One of our play video was always grainy and none of us can solve it . After meddling it for awhile I manage to solve it. I realise the live keying was mask over it, hence it cause a problem. After solving the issues and testing out some aux out put we call it a day. 

16 Dec 2014

Good Morning everyone. Start off the morning by going over to Cambridge to grab some stuff to prepare for english christmasing, After that we headed back to sliver to unbox the hitch for the trailer. 

After unboxing it, the four of us took the whole morning and late afternoon to fix it up. It was a tough process because all of us have never work on it before. 

We have to reverse the car in and out for a fair bit of time before finally getting the hitch into the trailer. We then have a late lunch together.

After that we have 2 live events shoot. For this Preschool shoot, I was remote camera. Just into 15 minutes of the show. My screen froze on me and die. My whole screen become infrared screen. It was fuzzing in a odd way. I was handicapped. 

With the help of my TD , director and engineer I regroup myself and manage to come back strongly. I rely the help of them to help me check my focus while i frame up my shot with the weird looking screen. 

Here is the show link.  

After dinner, I tidy up the studio and pack away the studio cloth and we have our second show. This time I was the TD. It was really good to be doing TD because I am slowly getting the hang of it. A few minor mistakes of cutting to fast but overall i guess this was one of the better show i work on as a TD. 

After the show we wrapped up, we tidy up the trailer and realize  our video didnt stream because our network went down. Harry then fix it. We then went up to studio and pack some stuff up for christmasing and call it a day. 

17 Dec 2014

Good morning everyone, started the day by packing up the equipments for english christmassing. Mathew was in a total mess. We have to shift around and maneuver carefully.  

After that I started to slowly pack whatever in the studio that is needed for christmassing. We were basically updating the equipment list on the google drive while sorting out the equipments.

During 3 o clock everyone then stop whatever they are doing and prepare for the show. Last 4th grade show before the big final one english christmas sing. 

I was the Engineer for the show. Wow, things were crazy today. What will go wrong go round. Everything that was working well went down. Network went down before the shows start, It also affected the remote camera, it also affected the streaming. Crew were reshuffle. New crew were working on new stuff and they have to learn the equipment. The tricaster itself hang too. 

I myself struggle. Today was so hectic i haven had the time to set up my console and prepare with the CCU so i mean a mistake of not checking the playback on the mini dv deck so i wasnt record. Thanks harry for being so patient and guided me and troubleshot with me what went wrong. 

After the show we rerecorded and duplicated it. 

The whole crew have dinner together, after dinner we started checking off things on the checklist and start to load some of them up. 

We tidy up and clean up the trailer and call it a day at 1 am . 

18 Dec 2014

Good morning everyone started the day by loading all camera into harry's suv and we head of to scottish rite. 

Upon arriving, I set up the gopro for time lapse before setting up the remaining cables for the 4 other cameras. 

After setting up the cameras, we serve lunch and have lunch together before unloading the equipment. After unloading the equipment from the truck. We drill hole on the backdrop and hang aircraft cable through the hole so that we can fix on the grid. 

After setting up the backdrop, we then help joshua the set up trusk for the left and right stage. 

After setting up the trusk, we help with winston in setting up the two projector. It took us quite abit of time to set up the projector because they were using a new pulley system . 

We called it a day after setting up the two projector screens. 

19 Dec 2014

Good morning everyone. The day started with rains. 3 of us plus harry was working on the hitch . It took us awhile before securing it. The whole crew was drenched. After securing it, we head off to Scottish Rite. We were travelling on 20mph. 

Upon reaching there, we unhitch the truck from the trailer. After that we started laying the cables. 4 fiber optics, 3 bnc , 1 network, 2 audio cables. We then started to lay the cable for our power for our trailer. 5 cables go to the power distribution panel. I then started up the tricaster and make sure everything is up and running. Luckily nothing in the trailer was affected. At first i wasnt able to start the macmini but after troubleshooting we realized it is the wireless toogle that affected it.

We manage to troubleshoot everything except one which is camera 5 can only have a feed for SD but not HD.  

After that we called it a day.   

20 Dec 2014

Good morning everyone here is the link to today shoot that i work as the camera 6 wireless camera, it was pretty tough for me because of the i am on full manual but it was really a fun job getting alot of close up and angles. 

Before the shoot started, the crew finalized the roles and angles and lay 1 final bnc for camera 5. We then remove the router from the trailer and move router to tech position. We then run the SE-600 for powerpoint to CV cable. After that we then did a rehersal from top to bottom to make sure everyone gaspe their roles. 

Here is a shot of the crew boots, check out all the timberlands we own . 

Here is a picture of our set.

Anthony micing up Rev. Fong.

Here is the crewshot. Thank you everyone for the guidance. Have alot of fun working with you guys. 

21 Dec 2014

Good morning everyone. Started off the day with sunday worship. We set up everything and I was in charge of the streaming. After awhile, we were lacking a few crews so I was deployed to the camera 1 the jib operator. It was really fun . Something that not always you get to use. 

Here is the link to the combined worship.

After lunch, the crew hangout and take various funny photos. Thank you for the guidance people. 

Here is some photos of what cables we lay and the amount of cables we have. 

Messy control room with 2 mixer, one to control the projector the other to control for DVD. 

After that we have a crew meeting. Harry field of view is block badly. It was a meeting but end up we create a ruckus in it. 4 of us have really bond alot through all those hardships together. counting down it will be less than 1 month before i have to head back to singapore. I will really miss everyone here. 

Here is the link for the Session 2 of christmasing, I was the wireless camera again. I was really lucky that i was the wireless camera, i felt this is the best role that is suited for me. Getting close up shot with the cast.

After the shoot we tidy everything and pack the trailer. We then drove the trailer back to Silver and unloaded everything. We booted up everything to make sure everything is fine before calling it day. What a long and enjoyable day of shoot definitely one of the most fun day.