Words Television People Never Want to Hear

I woke up this AM at 5AM, with the alarm set for 6AM...immediately fell back into a deep sleep and dreamed I was arguing with my car repair shop over a bill. On the balance, I'd have rather remained awake and practice shooting staple into my arm. Yesterday was a rough production day, especially after an editor discovered that one of our cameras was having an intermittent image quality issue...that is, the damn thing randomly defocused the camera just a little bit (it's a lot more complicated than that, and in truth we're still sorting it out). Sick feeling in stomach ensues...we're way more than half way through filming The Best Defense Season 4.

Typically, we review the critical shots, such as the master, or establishing, shot for the scenarios, on site on the camera's screen, which is hardly a precision instrument. The digital files are then transferred to more permanent media back at the production facility, but those files may not be closely reviewed until they moved into the editing cycle. Our very observant editor Derek caught the problem...we all rushed back to the production facility to start taking a serious look at the video we've shot. We lost about a day's shooting, luckily none of the complex scenarios! Darn frightening!

More when I get home...