Shooting Day
Today, I got up in the morning when I should have been sleeping till noon. I had to go to a shoot for a TV commercial we had done at the office. Well, that pretty much means I have to stand or sit around as our production crew set up a shot, wait for adequate sunlight to pop out of the clouds, and shoot. Unlike some other shoots, this was an on-location shoot that had us all packing to got to the literal boondocks in Rizal. There the work commenced at what I learned was a quarry. With goats, ducks, turkeys, pigeons (How John Woo!) and curious barrio folk watching, the production crew, cast, agency and client did their things to finish the commercial as soon as humanly possible. Of course, that pretty much means the WHOLE day.
Well, I really didn't have to do anything save stare at a monitor, nod and mumble approvingly and wait for the next free meal, or grab a drink from the ice box. That's the good thing about TV shoots; since we're clients, the production house crew treat us like kings. Well, like VIPs, anyway. To an extent. The bad thing was, I was pretty much trapped there when I would have much preferred just getting shut-eye at home to catch up on my comics, DVDs and sidelines. No such luck. Oh well.
Anyway, the shoot involved some stunts, so we had paramedics on standby (who looked like SWAT for some reason), stuntmen and of course, attractive talents. In particular I'd probably remember our female talent, who seemed to be hyper the whole time; pretty amusing. Generally, everything went smoothly, though by the time we called it a wrap it was about 6 PM.
I arrived home a couple of hours later; I had the service car drop me at home. No more strength or appetite to go out. I just plopped into bed and turned my brain off as I watched The Blair Witch Project on cable (still creepy after all this time, but diluted. Now THAT is a shoot I would be sure to beg off of...). Another thing I caught on cable was Fist of God (I think), a Samo Hung Hong Kong movie that was, once upon a time, supposed to be the live-action Tekken movie. The story is, Namco disapproved of the project and one lawsuit later, everything Tekken-ish was taken out (though two of the heroes still resemble Jin and Hwoarang from the game). What is left is a far-out futuristic tale of evil super-powered dictators, mutant monsters, deadly toxic gases and of course, lots of bad CG. Oh well. Samo got screwed by Namco, but at least the game makers got their desserts with that HORRID Tekken anime. Heh.
Anyway, tomorrow we shoot again. Then it will be back to the office. And normal desk work. I should enjoy these outings whenever I can. Too tired to do so most of the time though.
Today, I got up in the morning when I should have been sleeping till noon. I had to go to a shoot for a TV commercial we had done at the office. Well, that pretty much means I have to stand or sit around as our production crew set up a shot, wait for adequate sunlight to pop out of the clouds, and shoot. Unlike some other shoots, this was an on-location shoot that had us all packing to got to the literal boondocks in Rizal. There the work commenced at what I learned was a quarry. With goats, ducks, turkeys, pigeons (How John Woo!) and curious barrio folk watching, the production crew, cast, agency and client did their things to finish the commercial as soon as humanly possible. Of course, that pretty much means the WHOLE day.
Well, I really didn't have to do anything save stare at a monitor, nod and mumble approvingly and wait for the next free meal, or grab a drink from the ice box. That's the good thing about TV shoots; since we're clients, the production house crew treat us like kings. Well, like VIPs, anyway. To an extent. The bad thing was, I was pretty much trapped there when I would have much preferred just getting shut-eye at home to catch up on my comics, DVDs and sidelines. No such luck. Oh well.
Anyway, the shoot involved some stunts, so we had paramedics on standby (who looked like SWAT for some reason), stuntmen and of course, attractive talents. In particular I'd probably remember our female talent, who seemed to be hyper the whole time; pretty amusing. Generally, everything went smoothly, though by the time we called it a wrap it was about 6 PM.
I arrived home a couple of hours later; I had the service car drop me at home. No more strength or appetite to go out. I just plopped into bed and turned my brain off as I watched The Blair Witch Project on cable (still creepy after all this time, but diluted. Now THAT is a shoot I would be sure to beg off of...). Another thing I caught on cable was Fist of God (I think), a Samo Hung Hong Kong movie that was, once upon a time, supposed to be the live-action Tekken movie. The story is, Namco disapproved of the project and one lawsuit later, everything Tekken-ish was taken out (though two of the heroes still resemble Jin and Hwoarang from the game). What is left is a far-out futuristic tale of evil super-powered dictators, mutant monsters, deadly toxic gases and of course, lots of bad CG. Oh well. Samo got screwed by Namco, but at least the game makers got their desserts with that HORRID Tekken anime. Heh.
Anyway, tomorrow we shoot again. Then it will be back to the office. And normal desk work. I should enjoy these outings whenever I can. Too tired to do so most of the time though.
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