Today I dusted the cobwebs, and went on my first shoot, just as a runner and the data wrangler, for a simple corporate shoot. We went to quite a few places, which reminded me to be thankful for the years of studio shoots we had, did the menial-est stuff like crowd control with the blistering sun overhead, and had the most dangerous task, which is to find a secluded PowerPoint in the mall to copy and transfer footages. Which I found, in between the gents and ladies. Many times I would think I'm going to get busted by security, but the sound of hurried footsteps actually belonged to bladder-bursting customers/ workers.
At the end of the day, I am exhausted. And dehydrated too. But wow, there is this fun of being on set that I had forgotten for a while. Seeing the DOP create the magic (although it was us who had to painstakingly do up the backdrop for one of the locations) and just watching a fluid, beautiful frame on the monitor, that's just pure joy and awe. And of course the footage had better be good, I'll be the one editing it back in the office.
Somehow, even though this job's tough like crazy, I don't know why, but there's still that magic.
