Final day of streetmachine weekend. We had to be at the autoslalom this time and at 7:30 in the morning.
I was looking forward to this day as I do like watching slaloms and cars up for display.
We had to set up the PA system again, but this time I had to do it nearly by myself, but because I was tired I was somewhere else with my mind and didn't think. At first I had to set up the speaker tripod which I got the hang of it soon. After I had to go in the trailer and got cables handed (mic plug with a quarter inch) and he asked me to plug it in. I just stood there and got nervous somehow.
The supervisor stayed calm and asked me to look around, but I still didn't know *sigh*
He then asked me what kind of device needs to be plugged in there because the microphone wouldn't work.
I finally realized we needed the commercial and music.. oh my gosh. When I knew that I also knew what to do next. He asked me where to plug in both quarter inch, but I was wrong. It shouldn't go in insert, but on the other row above (forgot name of it)
Getting the microphone ready was an easy task, but I did have to rearrange it a bit.
The microphone had to be on the first channel, music was on second and the commercials on 3rd and 4th, which means both channels have to be on and the sliders have to be up to hear the commercials.
I had to turn on the music and so I put up the slider. I didn't hear anything but found out the mute button was on. I didnt think for a moment and pressed mute which had the music playing really loud XD
Oops! But really, making all those mistakes is not fun as it's not even that hard.
The transition between the commercials and music failed at first as the mp3 player didn't get paused and the second time the music device didn't respond and so I clicked one time too many and accidentally paused it, but I did feel I did learn and could work with it better. I know now what is needed to set it up and will look around and think it through some more.
The race was fun to watch. I filmed a lot. At first I only filmed with a wide shot and didn't zoom in, but the cars were so far away that I started experimenting. I filmed with medium shots and also close ups which were hard to keep still so I hope those turned out okay. The sun was quite hot though so with non interesting cars I tried to sit in the shadow close to the trailer. Every now and then I got called in through the microphone because I had to play commercials.
At 12:30 we could pack. The supervisor asked me what I could pack and I looked around and knew it.
The music was unplugged so it was obvious to roll up those cables.
Packing went smoothly, I rolled up the cables and unplugged the whole pa system and got everything in place.
As show and shine started we left to the park so I could quickly grab some shots from the vehicles. I walked around and wished I could stay longer, but as the supervisor was waiting for me I made a quick round.
The video is not that great for this because there were a lot of people and I walked around so its shaky.
Sadly I didn't feel well when I got home and felt a migraine coming up because my sight got weird and my hand , lips and tongue got numb o.O. Slight headache luckily so I left to the University to pay my last rent and got a tour in the process. Nice view it had up there and it looked like a great school.
Sadly it had been so hot (29 degrees) the whole day that I freaking burned my nose! Of course the place where I had my sunglasses is really white. My glasses covers that part, but still it looks stupid. Also my forehead is partially sunburned thanks to my bangs and also my arms partially because of my sweater xD Don't like this, but my arms are a bit more tanned if you compare it to my shoulders.
I was looking forward to this day as I do like watching slaloms and cars up for display.
We had to set up the PA system again, but this time I had to do it nearly by myself, but because I was tired I was somewhere else with my mind and didn't think. At first I had to set up the speaker tripod which I got the hang of it soon. After I had to go in the trailer and got cables handed (mic plug with a quarter inch) and he asked me to plug it in. I just stood there and got nervous somehow.
The supervisor stayed calm and asked me to look around, but I still didn't know *sigh*
He then asked me what kind of device needs to be plugged in there because the microphone wouldn't work.
I finally realized we needed the commercial and music.. oh my gosh. When I knew that I also knew what to do next. He asked me where to plug in both quarter inch, but I was wrong. It shouldn't go in insert, but on the other row above (forgot name of it)
Getting the microphone ready was an easy task, but I did have to rearrange it a bit.
The microphone had to be on the first channel, music was on second and the commercials on 3rd and 4th, which means both channels have to be on and the sliders have to be up to hear the commercials.
I had to turn on the music and so I put up the slider. I didn't hear anything but found out the mute button was on. I didnt think for a moment and pressed mute which had the music playing really loud XD
Oops! But really, making all those mistakes is not fun as it's not even that hard.
The transition between the commercials and music failed at first as the mp3 player didn't get paused and the second time the music device didn't respond and so I clicked one time too many and accidentally paused it, but I did feel I did learn and could work with it better. I know now what is needed to set it up and will look around and think it through some more.
The race was fun to watch. I filmed a lot. At first I only filmed with a wide shot and didn't zoom in, but the cars were so far away that I started experimenting. I filmed with medium shots and also close ups which were hard to keep still so I hope those turned out okay. The sun was quite hot though so with non interesting cars I tried to sit in the shadow close to the trailer. Every now and then I got called in through the microphone because I had to play commercials.
At 12:30 we could pack. The supervisor asked me what I could pack and I looked around and knew it.
The music was unplugged so it was obvious to roll up those cables.
Packing went smoothly, I rolled up the cables and unplugged the whole pa system and got everything in place.
As show and shine started we left to the park so I could quickly grab some shots from the vehicles. I walked around and wished I could stay longer, but as the supervisor was waiting for me I made a quick round.
The video is not that great for this because there were a lot of people and I walked around so its shaky.
Sadly I didn't feel well when I got home and felt a migraine coming up because my sight got weird and my hand , lips and tongue got numb o.O. Slight headache luckily so I left to the University to pay my last rent and got a tour in the process. Nice view it had up there and it looked like a great school.
Sadly it had been so hot (29 degrees) the whole day that I freaking burned my nose! Of course the place where I had my sunglasses is really white. My glasses covers that part, but still it looks stupid. Also my forehead is partially sunburned thanks to my bangs and also my arms partially because of my sweater xD Don't like this, but my arms are a bit more tanned if you compare it to my shoulders.
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