Worked the Big 10 Womens’s Rowing Championship out at Eagle Creek Park this morning. As I did last year. I had a 5:30am crew call and we were finished and breaking down equipment by 1pm.
Michigan won its fifth rowing title. There were 4 varsity 8 races and 2 varsity 4 races. No heats! Just 6 races that took about and hour and a half to run.
Second race of the day.
Michigan wins it’s fifth title.
The WNBA started today, so this is the first game for the Fever and I was back on High CAM.
The arena was about a 3rd empty, but a lot of kids were there for the game.
Fever won!
Fifth game of the series with the Pacers leading 3 games to 1. But this is where the Pacers needed to end this, and they did with a 105 to 87 victory.
Instead of High CAM, I was shooting Fan CAM tonight. My job is to walk around the arena, with a camera attached to a wireless pack, and during the breaks and time-outs shoot live 
commercials with a host, along with a lot of fans that the other cameras can’t get to.
It’s a lot of running around and up and down stairs and escalators, and it requires, two people working the camera. I shot the first half and my 
partner Jacob Lindauer shot the 2nd half.
The shot sheet on the right, shows when, where and what is to appear on the arena screens during the game. The orange highlights are the Fam Cam shots and where and what we should be shooting at any given time.
I’ve been shooting Marian’s Commencement Ceremonies for Full Blown Productions for several years now. Randy Kinsley and Kristen Smith, owners of Full Blown, are old friends, so it’s always fun to work with them.
It’s a quick and easy set-up and breakdown. The shoot is about a half hour of the graduates walking in and taking their seats, and a few speeches, but once the graduates start getting their diplomas, there is so many of them, that all each cameraman has to do is to frame up their shot and lock down their camera.
The director will just switch back and forth between shots while will we stand guard over our cameras for 2 hours and twiddle our thumbs. Easy pay day.
This was an all day shoot. Crew call was for 8:30a at the station, then we all drove from there to Anderson University’s Reardon Auditorium for the annual Anderson Breakfast Exchange Club Bids For Kids Auction, in Anderson, IN.
They raise funds for child abuse prevention programs serving Madison County Indiana.
I’ve been during this auction for about 8 to 9 years, and it’s a live auction, running from 6pm to 12 midnight tonight and all day tomorrow. But I’m not working tomorrow because I will be shooting the Pacers first playoff game.
The morning was filled with us setting up cameras, running a lot of cables and testing equipment. It really didn’t take that long but they did add a 5th camera to the mix this year.
The afternoon was lunch and basically, a lot of sitting around with nothing to do.
The evening was all Auction. I worked the Replay Station which basically means I ran all of the commercial breaks, the Auction’s Opening and Close and a Guideline tape that detailed the rules for calling in and placing a bid on items being auctioned.
It’s nothing but button pushing all night.
I also ran audio which covered the house feed that we were getting from the auditorium, the music that was played under the auctioneers and the audio for the commercials.
There was no camera work because the auction had a lot of first time volunteers to do that, which, every year turns into a headache for the directors.
© 2012 Jerome Meriweather
