I pass!

VT ain't an easy job seriously. Like I mention earlier which I need to multi-task couple of things in 1 time. It's pretty hard thing for me, but as soon as I get used to it, it's just a very simple job to me. I can do it pretty well now. What I can't believe is that my seniors are asking me to look over the others interns. Shocking but rewarding because it also means that they look upon me.

This week my job is to go out and take care of other assignments. Which also means that I will have a lot of opportunities to interact with other people in the field as well as practice my camera skills. The scary part is the post production. Honestly when I see how my seniors edit it, they do it so so well and make me feel like I don't even know how to edit it. I have couple of footage to edit for these few days. I can't afford to lose my focus.

I'm not really feeling well now due to 1 week of hard work total non stop hardcore working from day till midnight. I don't think I'm trying to boast but I think I did a pretty good job. I'm very happy with everything so far. But it also means that I'm going to have more things coming ahead of me. Gotta prepare for it!

Mistakes

Today whole day sticking myself to the editing of my Quickie footage to be used tonight. Everything went very well I did all the recording that we need and stuff but tough luck, I screwed up some part during the live show. I skipped the phone super and due to last minute changes I messed up the whole 2nd segment. I lost track of the time available for 2nd segment and needed help from Akmar and Daniel which I don't really want.

It's not that I could not handle the VT myself, I'm not nervous at all. In fact, I was kinda confident while doing it, but just because of minor mistakes it caused the whole timeline to messed up. So frustrated of myself. Tomorrow (Saturday) and day after tomorrow (Sunday) I'll be doing VT all by myself, I can't afford to do any mistakes and I won't allow myself to repeat my own mistakes. I will do the best that I could and not let my seniors down. If they can do it, I can do it!

Showdown 2011 Season 2

So today we went to ICT, Shah Alam for the live Showdown 2011 Season 2. Honestly I must say that the atmosphere there is way much better than what you saw in TV. It's very dull all I can say. 1 day you should push yourself here and get hold of it.

Hafiz is really really busy hosting the show, why? Because he have to control the crowd, memorizing his lines, focus on camera, interacting with the contestants while directors giving him orders what to ask, say and tell through his ear piece. Awesome eh? This is what I call it as super multitasking!

Here is our judges, I'm sitting pretty far away from them and lazy to walk to them and snap a picture. I prefer to watch the dance. LOL!

Here is 1 of the camera on the set behind the crowds to shoot some awesome footage for you guys. It's not an easy job. They are always on call by the directors in control room on how they should shoot it. NON STOP.

I didn't get to shoot all of the contestants dancing because the lighting was really gloomy and over exposed at times. This is all I can get!

Hafiz is talking to the dance crew while panel of judges is giving comments about their dance steps.

Now this is how it looks like at the control room. We got directors, producers, MCR, MCP, VT, Lighting man, Audio man, etc. Trust me that you don't want to be inside here. The director and producer will be yelling non stop at all times! 

Showdown had a little fight among the contestants this week. EPIC! I love the fights because it is a reality show, fights are unavoidable. That's all I can bring to you today! Stay tuned for more awesome updates! I will be in charge of VT playbacks and live tomorrow! God bless my soul!

I said I'll fight back

Day 2, working in office today is really really easy. I came to the office around 830 to clean up the desk and tables and prepare for the day. I didn't know how fun it is till me, Paul and Chelsea were assigned to follow Jessica and Andrea to do our assignments. Why? Because I was thinking that it will just be another story to cover, talking to the organizer and shoot some videos, but I was so so wrong!

So when we reached the place in KL for the press conference, we registered ourselves as 8tv crew's intern and they gave us 2 packs of freebies consist of facial masks, a very nice key chain, Korea tour guide book, 4GB pen drive and lots of it. I was quite happy for that until we were treated with an awesome Japanese lunch by Executive Director (Gavin). He's a passionate, friendly and visionary guy, I admire him really really much. Hopefully someday he will see the market of Metal and Hard Rock music in Malaysia someday and try hard to push us out!

Yesterday I was badly beaten up by VT's job scoop. For me it's way too much to handle in little time. But today I spent hours and hours sitting in front of the ingest room with my senior Akmar role playing on how to run the system. I didn't fully master it yet but at least I got it around 30%. I know I'm a slow learner and I really need a lot of practice to make it perfect. I have another 1 or 2 days to practice before throwing me alone with the systems.

I said I'll fight back even it'll take everything that I had. But I'll never give up. I know I will get screw by my seniors these 1 or 2 days because of mistakes, but without mistakes I will never have a chance to know where I went wrong and overcome it. I just have to straight up, stand still and prepare for the bullet. I'll take it like a man.

Tomorrow I'm going to be at Showdown 2011 @ ICT, Shah Alam. It's WAR!

1st day of work

Yesterday night I was really pump up and excited on how's my internship is going to be. I was so excited that I couldn't get some proper rest. So how was my 1st day at work?

Today I got my 1st duty arrange by my boss, as a VT. Video Tape Operator. It doesn't sounds like a big shot job isn't it? But trust me, I was thinking that too until I got to know what is the real job that VT need to do. I need to compile all the commercials, bumpers, text and prepare to air it online, a time keeper, a middle man between director and conty, editing and then backup. That's my job scoop!

Now it sounds like some serious job? I can't afford to have blank screen air on nationwide and no mistake must be made since it's live! Meaning, I need to be super alert on set and no mistake it allow. Not even a little bit! Stress? Yes!

And so the pressure and stress rose up like a wave rushing over me, it will either break me or strengthen me in the future, how's it going to be? I asked myself this question throughout the whole day believe me! Not a single moment I never stop thinking of quiting or asking for another position. But I know it's for my own good, I need to get over with this hardship!

All my seniors come to congratulate me because I get the toughest job scoop there is in 8tv Quickie production team. They said if I get through this, the other jobs means nothing to me. Believe me when I say, it's easier to be said than done. Am I crushed? Yes. Am I giving up? No.

I believe that God is with me, no matter what's coming ahead of me, I know that God will have my back because He said that I'm the head and not the tail, I'm above and not beneath. God keep blessing me with knowledge and wisdom to overcome this. I really need You!

Excited and nervous

I'm so excited and nervous at the same time, why? Because tomorrow it's my 1st day at work. I'm not worried at all because I know I'll do perfectly well there. But because I'm too excited I can't sleep right now.


I had plan everything that I need to do tomorrow from morning till night but I still get so nervous. Hoping for the best to come tomorrow!


Gonna find something to do now~

I just don't understand her

I find her quite funny, she read my status and comment about it, and then when I talk back and she gotten not happy bout it. It's fine to me, but then I delete all the comment and she gotten mad at me. Is it wrong deleting comments? I really don't know that's something like that. Pfft.

No matter what is it, it's so wrong to insult other people. I thought after so long, after all the hassle and dramas we could go on with our lives perfectly. But I guess it's just my own thinking, because she's not showing it. Whenever I be a little bit aggressive and she get so upset bout it, but when she does the same thing she never realize it. Sigh.

Said to be friends again, shake our hands and move on, but in fact she don't. What I did I get myself into. Oh God.