I Want to Be A Macho Man
Today is Day 1 of a 10 day shoot in Novi, Michigan. It's about 30 min outside of Detroit. I'm going to make an attempt LOL to start this blog up again...but seeing as my last entry was 2 years ago, I'm not holding my breath. :) So, a lot has happened in the last month. In April I went on my first cruise, which was SWEET, and made about three weekend trips to Louisville in a row...not so sweet with gas prices. Also in April Emily and I decided that it would be swell (yeah SWELL) if we ran off to NYC for the summer. So that's what we're going to do for June and July. Last Friday I was in the city looking for an apt...all day...in the RAIN. It was fun! No really. Ems and I had a good time but we didn't think to take pictures...we prob would have been soaked in them anyway. LOL. Last week I also went on vacation with my Dad to D.C. That was great seeing all the monuments, and going on our first vacay in like 6 years as a family. Of course since then there have been new additions to the fam...which at times makes things hella awkward. Pro temporae, curae non. Try to translate that. You can't. HA. But this week I'm back at work (finally) and really happy to be shooting again.
Unfortunately, today I had a run in with one of those old time geezers that thinks women are good for displaying and not much else. This dude approached me with his buddy, who wanted to talk shop. I wasn't really in the mood, cause I was trying to work. Why do people always want to bother me when I'm shooting? I don't say, come into your office and ask you to explain the history of paperclips, do I? And I certainly don't expect you to show off your vast knowledge of engineering, and then insult you by asking if you even know what a T-square is! Seriously people. I'm a girl. I work with cameras. I make moving pictures. Get over it already. Yes, the camera is heavy, and yes, I'm good at my job, and NO, I can't teach you in 5 min everything you'd need to know to have MY job. And frankly, I don't care if you CAN afford the 60,000 camera. You still wouldn't be able to turn it on. The end.
My favorite part of the conversation...
"Now, excuse me asking this, but are you strong enough to work a steadicam? I mean, you are kinda tall."
I'm not gonna tell you what I said, but he followed it with a remark like this.
"Now don't you get me started on that (women running cameras)."
OK, I implied that women (as well as shorter men) would actually make really good steadicam ops, because they have a lower center of gravity.
"I could buy wanna them cameras tonight..."
"Now you just doing preliminary stuff...somebody else is gonna come out and decide what they need to shoot."
He even had the nerve to declare that everything I was doing wasn't "critical" and prob wouldn't be used because they'd have to send out somebody else to get the real footage. I've got to stop. This blog could go on FOREVER. Anyway, he didn't know anything about TV, so I don't know why I'm frustrated. Guess cause I wasn't expecting to run into such an ASS.
WOW. I'm really venting. HA. OK, well it's 9:00, and I need to go run. I promise...and you really shouldn't trust this promise...pictures and funny stories from my shoots. I'll do what I can! Cheers
Unfortunately, today I had a run in with one of those old time geezers that thinks women are good for displaying and not much else. This dude approached me with his buddy, who wanted to talk shop. I wasn't really in the mood, cause I was trying to work. Why do people always want to bother me when I'm shooting? I don't say, come into your office and ask you to explain the history of paperclips, do I? And I certainly don't expect you to show off your vast knowledge of engineering, and then insult you by asking if you even know what a T-square is! Seriously people. I'm a girl. I work with cameras. I make moving pictures. Get over it already. Yes, the camera is heavy, and yes, I'm good at my job, and NO, I can't teach you in 5 min everything you'd need to know to have MY job. And frankly, I don't care if you CAN afford the 60,000 camera. You still wouldn't be able to turn it on. The end.
My favorite part of the conversation...
"Now, excuse me asking this, but are you strong enough to work a steadicam? I mean, you are kinda tall."
I'm not gonna tell you what I said, but he followed it with a remark like this.
"Now don't you get me started on that (women running cameras)."
OK, I implied that women (as well as shorter men) would actually make really good steadicam ops, because they have a lower center of gravity.
"I could buy wanna them cameras tonight..."
"Now you just doing preliminary stuff...somebody else is gonna come out and decide what they need to shoot."
He even had the nerve to declare that everything I was doing wasn't "critical" and prob wouldn't be used because they'd have to send out somebody else to get the real footage. I've got to stop. This blog could go on FOREVER. Anyway, he didn't know anything about TV, so I don't know why I'm frustrated. Guess cause I wasn't expecting to run into such an ASS.
WOW. I'm really venting. HA. OK, well it's 9:00, and I need to go run. I promise...and you really shouldn't trust this promise...pictures and funny stories from my shoots. I'll do what I can! Cheers
posted by Errnn at 8:28 PM
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