MultiCamera Production Today

Yeayyy... I've done with my first multi camera production project :D Tonight, me and friends went to Triple Door Theatre to shoot a live stage performance there: Viva Oz Vegas.

Quite interesting and nice play actually.

Those pictures were taken by my friend, Paul Turcott

We got our crew call on 3 pm at campus cage, then walked down the street around 10 minutes to get there. Need a couple hours to set all the equipment and cables, including 2 panasonic dvcpro, 1 sony hd, switcher, etc. My teacher signed me to be a technical director today. So basically I was responsible to manually switch video sources, perform live edits and overlay titles as ordered by the director.

It was fun!

My teacher, Dan Fabrizio. Next to him was Dusty, the Program Director.

I was the little blurry image, right in front the monitor

The switcher I operated tonight, we called it "big blue"

After the show finished, we need to pack up all the equipment in hurry and brought back to the car before the next show started. Kinda hectic, but I did really enjoy my job and the performance itself.

Oh ya... I was the only girl again on the production team :D So simply said, I was surrounded by boys :)) My teacher asked me and wondered, why it often happened like that?

I don't know why actually...

But maybe the reason is because there's not much girl who involves at this field in term of being the person behind the scene. It takes a lot of works and responsibilities; we have to carry all the heavy equipment and set it up by ourself, walk around to make sure it works properly, put ourself on the tight schedule and hectic never ending work, and sooooo on.

As for me as a girl, it mean I have to work hard... and just forget about the idea to dress up like girls in common: wear the cute wardrobe, pretty make up and high heels :p

Just as what happened tonight at the show. There were a lot of beautiful girls around me, dressed up with a pretty dress with make ups on their face. They sat nicely and had their fine dinner with a pricey food and a glass of margarita/wine/etc, while I was in simply shirt and converse kets, carried all the stuff and cable, did my work.

But I love it thou' :D

I love the hectic schedule on my production days... I do enjoy when I have to carry all the heavy equipment, even it means lot of sweats on me.

I do enjoy the satisfy feeling after the project is done, even it means tiredness :)

and most of all.... I do proud to myself, as I know that I don't only have a pretty face, but also a brain and spirit to work hard :D

And for me.... those feeling is priceless :)

English Composition Class

Today I supposed to do my homeworks for english composition class at library but I wasn't motivated at all and so ended up doing unimportant thing :p

like taking a so-called-cute picture with my boyfriend :p

I don't know if I'm able to finish all those homeworks before monday. The teacher gave me a lot of things to do; more than any other class.

Kinda funny, since I'm an video student and english is only a general class... why the task of general class is more overwhelming than my video class?

Only God knows, how much I hate that class :'(

Well, actually I love writing and I'm pretty good on writing in Indonesia. I can compose a very nice, powerful, yet beautiful sentence.

But when it comes to English....

Hhhh... I admit, my grammar and structure are very poor.

Uhhhh, Sara!!!!

You don't usually let a negative feeling take over you... and it's not the way you suppose to write on this blog. You want to be a light, not a shadow!

Cheer up Saraaaaaa!!! You CAN do that!

^

*trying to cheer up myself actually*

Hehehe...

So anyway, I just want to say.. if you somehow come to my blog and read this horrible English... Just please excuse my language :(

I write this blog on English because I need to use it often so I can get better soon.

By the way... I'll go shooting tomorrow for my class project:D It's a multi camera production for a show in downtown. I'm kinda excited actually :)

I really love this field and I wonder when will the time come for me to really work on as a professional videographer? :)

About TVc part 2

This is our chat... :)

Kinda relieve somehow after hearing those.

It was really a pressure of being a director for the first time, because I didn't know if what I did was meeting their expectation or not. I was afraid if my work failed.

Thanks God that it didn't :)

Even I guess I still made a mistake on it :p

But as he said... let it be for the sake of experience :)

There's always the first thing in everything where you will make a mistake in order to learn.

That was my first experience and I'll do my best for make it better in the future :)

Cia yooooooo :)

So, I welcome you to my life

Been about a year since I broke up with my fiancee-to-be.

Been single along the time, even the people came and went away in my life.

Simply because I wasn't ready yet to make a new commitment, yet I was really afraid.

I almost couldn't count how many people I've hurt before and how many promises I couldn't fulfill. And if people judged me as a heartbreaker, I bet they couldn't imagine that it was hurt me too, more than them.

If people thought that it was easier to be the one who left rather that be the one who been left... hahaha... I just could laugh.

They were totally wrong :)

As for me, hurting or breaking other people heart is the last thing I want to do in this world. And if I had a choice, I rather hurt myself than other people.

But... it was a process in life; like it or not.... I had to take it.

So... it's been a year since I set myself free from any commitment :)

A year of freedom that I never experienced in about the last 6 years.

There were people came and went in those 6 years; whenever I broke up, there was a rebounded boy already waiting for me.

It made me tired. Tired of seeing people hurt because of me, tired of seeing they lost their spirit because I left them.

Even I knew time would heal and all those experiences would make them grew older and wiser.

Even I knew it would be happen to them as it happened to me as well.

But well..., after a year putting myself on hold and enjoying the freedom of mine; I guess it's time for me to pack all of the past and find what truly last. If I never tried, I would never ever know what will last for truly.

"The only thing predictable about life is its unpredictability..."

Nothing predictable in this life...

I never know my luck if I never try and move on.

So..., I welcome you to my life, dear

Let's walk together...

I'll try to make the best of me in the process of growing up together along with you, and I hope you'll do the same.

We'll see, where this path will take us to...

And if it ends where both of us can be together, let it be.

But if somehow we couldn't make it..., I hope we still can learn from our journey and be a better person than before :)

I believe that every people in this world meet each other for a reason,

then let's see together...., what the reason for us :)

And once again,

Welcome to my life, dear :)

About TVc

Well,.. finally I'm back :D

Time flies, eh? I even didn't realize that it's been a couple months since the last time I wrote my first post, which was quite depressed I guess? :p

Hehehe...

Yeah, I was pretty exhausted at that time, surrounded by deadlines, deadlines, deadlines + pressures of important work to do. But all of it has done already. Yeayyy :)

That's me and my younger sister, having vacation in Bali

after those hard months :)

The important work that I did was a TVC (TV Commercial) for the event name 'Yogyakomtek', the biggest computer expo in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. To be frank, it was the first time for me doing such kind of job as a professional, no wonder I really got stressed.

I mean, I was just a third quarter film student who didn't have any experience before. That's right that sometimes I made a couple video, but oh my... it was only for the sake of my campus project. and I still often made LOT of mistakes: focus, white balance, composition, etc.

And suddenly I had to in charge for the whole production, started from the concept idea until the editing process.

It was a very close friend of mine who offered me this job. He was one of the committee of the event and he trusted me to do that. Actually, I was about to reject his offer in the first place. I told him my worries that I wasn't capable enough and there were a lot of people who more capable than me to do such quite those job. But then he told me that the reason he offered me, simply because he believed that I could. The fact that I lacked experiences didn't matter, he said; moreover it would be a great chance for me to gain the experience. "Where is Sara that I know?" He asked me.

And I accepted.

The process of pre-production took about a month on June-July since I was still in Seattle, in the middle of my school time. I had to manage my time carefully in order to make those two things worked together. I had to gave him five stories, so I spent every single time when I wasn't at campus to think, think, and think: at my way to campus on bus, when I walked back home, at my lunch time :p After that, I consulted it with him through ym or skype. As soon as he gave his approval, I moved to work with the story line and storyboard...

which is due on the same time as my final week.

I was completely exhausted :)

The production and post production time itself took about a month and half on August-September, after I finished with my spring quarter and headed back home. I had a great and also hectic time back then; I learned many things and gained a lot of experiences working with new people.

It was just a small production team actually, only 3 people included me.

So it's almost like "one man show" with me acted as a creative director, script writer, storyboard artist, director, cameramen, and also editor :)

My friend was a producer and the other one acted as our assistant and took care the rest of little thing.

When it's done and I delivered the final DVD to him... I was really relieved and proud of us. We did it :)

Here we were: me, Bee, and Kotrex

I'm looking forward to work with them again.

He told me that I did a good job, but I know I could do better.

There's still a lot of thing I have to learn in order to explore my talent and ability to produce something better in the future

And discreetly I made a promise to myself:

that someday, after I graduate and settled with my career, I will come back and ask if I can make one or two TVC again for them... for free :)

And I promised myself... I will make them the best TVC ever, multiple times better from what I did before.

Because I guess, I owe them (especially, him) a lot... For trusting me much even when I was no one :)

So, here I am now. Back in my daily life, studying and pursuing my dream here at Art Institute of Seattle as before.

Struggling with works, projects, and assignments to be done... I just need to fight hard as what I always did.

Back then, I was really stress with this whole TVC thing... but it's done and the time for me to smile watching it has come.

It passed...

and I know everything ahead of me will be the same :)

No matter how hard it is, I just need to keep moving on and trying harder.

and everything will pass... again :)