Slave Labor
“What the heck, Chelsea? Why wasn’t there a post yesterday?”
Well, geez, I didn’t realize I was needing to meet a deadline.
Friends, the reason why I didn’t write yesterday is because I was at work from 10 in the morning until 12:04 after midnight.
“Isn’t that illegal?”
Maybe if you are being held against your will.
“That’s kidnapping.”
Okay… my point is that I chose to go in that early and stay that late.
Why you may ask?
Because despite being a lowly intern and only having one more week of working there, I, Chelsea Elizabeth Corarito, got to go out into the field and accompany a producer and two shooters (camera(wo)men) to a shoot (a scene). Like a legit P.A. (production assistant) or something.
And it was the most terrifyingly beautiful thing ever.
“Terrifying meaning…”
Well, I did basically a full day of work. Then Nga, the tech guru of the office, told me how to dump footage (download the memory card to the laptop) and connect a producer to a shooter (set up a monitor to the camera so the producer can see what is being shot), which included a lot of steps that I wasn’t familiar with, but certainly not impossible.
I didn’t end up using any of that information.
“So what was scary?”
Well, the shoot took place at this barbecue restaurant. In Harlem.
“Oh.”
Yeah. But it was really far south so when we got there, I didn’t even know it was Harlem.
Side note: We took the West Side Highway up there and I got to see the most gorgeous shot of the Manhattan skyline at dusk into twilight into night. I could have stayed in that moment for forever.
Anywho, I won’t get into the details of the shoot because that would be boring and I can’t talk about the show we were filming for but we were there from about 6:30 until 11:00ish, got back to the office, talked to the executive producer, and then went home.
“Long day?”
Long day.
But it’s not like I haven’t done it before. I’ve been a P.A. on two other projects in the past and this wasn’t anything beyond that in terms of skills or difficulty. Sure, the producer said a lot of the situations that came up made the shoot more difficult but we still got what we needed and left.
“How exciting!”
Yep. I feel pretty awesome right now.
“So what’s on today’s agenda?”
Today I have to move to the next hostel because I’ve been in this one for the max of 14 days.
So that’s first. Then Jon is going to meet up with me and we’re going to check out the area around the hostel, he’s going to show me some cool places, and I might meet up with Elena for dinner. Who knows?
The day is young, I’m still conscious (barely), and I’ve got stuff to do. Have a wonderful day, wherever you are!
