Working as the producer's assitant...

It's has been a long time I didn't have chance to update blog. :)

In just the blink of an eye, I have started my practical training for 1 month plus. But it feels like already 3 months or longer. 

In the past 1 month, I have been used to start most of my day at 430am in the morning and end it at earliest 11am or latest 2am. It's actually a good things that I spent a day time at least 18 hours out of 24 hours a day. 

In this month, I have learned a lot. I am having fun everyday, I am enjoying every single day. The work I always have to do is find talents to find actor and actress. From here, I get to meet a lot of people and also make friends.

When we go on set, I make sure all the crews are happy, buy them good food, prepare coffee for them and make sure they are in the good mood. I am also helping the props department, set up a room, office... Just try to work the magic out. From a boring room, we decorate it become a nice editorial room, very stylist and fashionable. At the same time, make up artists also work out their magic, I always see them transform a very normal person to an outstanding and good looking person.

Sometimes, when there is not enough "keh leh feh" (Extra), then I will have chance to appear in the frame. I have acted few times like a guest in the restaurant, a friend of main character and my fingers always in the camera, pointing and make a circle on book, pretending that the finger is explaining something. It's quite fun experience.

I feel quite lucky that I have join a very fun production team. Before that, everybody have been telling me that work as production, I will get scold, I will get blame and all the negative things. But actually, everybody is really different from what I expect and totally opposite from the way they describe. Instead of the negative energy, everybody is funny, they like to joke around and always make me laugh, they never stress around but make the shooting time fun!

Of course sometimes I will get scold, because I know I am a quite terrible Intern. I am blur, I am not alert the things around me and I still do not understand a lot of things.

But, I will improve myself!

And the thing that I am fully in charge in is......

Da dang!

Movie Slate...

Basically, I have to run between 2 cameras and slate in every different scene.

Besides, write down all the details in every scenes for editor who is not following us for the shoot. Make sure he understand all the situations in the shooting time and make his job easier for the editing part. Note down whats the director required and is it a good take or NG.

At first I was running like mad, rushing like hell, stressful, but ...

I am getting better!!!

I think.

:D