Production Blog: Don't trust The Weather-Man

         Have you ever heard the legendary phrase? "The cake is a lie", well in this case the, weatherman is a lie. The weatherman had ruined my video and delayed my footage by a margin. In my original plans, I had plans to go shoot a video at the park, because I had found a nice spot it is isolated but still as beautiful as ever, I scouted the area 2 days before, making sure it was a quality location to film at, as soon as I confirmed it I had packed my bags, and left it near the door before heading out. I was so despite to limit the number of things that can go wrong that I watched the morning news, with the knowledge that it would be a sunny day with a "very" low chance of rain, I was confident in their word because why would they lie about the weather, I get lying about the mafia group that roams the city, but the weather!?! This is simply unacceptable. I went out on a sunny day when I expected the sun to shine, which it was! I was doing well I set the green screen, and I set a table where I put my computer to monitor the audio levels I got from my phone and set the camera stand, I went over to the screen, took a test video to make sure I'm getting proper sound from the phone I'm holding in my hand, and proper video zoom and focus from the camera. I was able to get footage done, I had a few minor issues that I was able to fix by tightening some bolts, and increasing the center of gravity in the camera stand by hanging a bag from the bottom which makes it extremely stable. I went to my spot and began reading the script from the side of my monitor which had the script and audio meter.

        Then BAM! came the rain, I was facing towards the sun for lighting and the storm came from behind me so I wasn't able to see the storm coming for vengeance, and how do I know this, it came in quiet, a small drowsy drip, that then covered the full area of my set, I'm annoyed at my self because I passed it off a random feeling from the wind. But it was too late for me to pester myself for the mistakes I made because that day I had to prepare for hellfire. My whole set was ruined, my green screen was abruptly hit by the wind, and then it basically drowned, my camera rig setup was fine because of the heavyweight at the bottom of it, but my computer suffered the worst, the green screen is washable, dryable, and are able to be ironed, but the laptop suffered irreversible damage, I had to spend more of my own money to buy and manually replace the keyboard. It was a disaster, now I have to wait for the green screen to dry out since my dryer would destroy the material, as it's not the recommended type of dryer, and my keyboard was destroyed, luckily I am able to keep using the same motherboard as the water waste able to make it to the motherboard. Now as a result I have to redo the shoot another day and find a time when the weather is 100% sunny throughout the whole day, and I won't get backstabbed by a weatherman who apparently had better things to do in life, I won't forget this. But looking at the good moments that happened, I was able to find issues with my setup and use preventative maintenance to stop it from happening in the future, and I was able to record a little bit of footage that I was able to review and edit to a liking as practice, and I most likely won't be able to use because the position will bit inconveniently different, and the lighting will also be different from the footage I will record later again.

        Now that I have to restart, I want to rethink my location so I can have a place where I can resort to if I have some type of disturbance like rain, and somewhere it is less likely to rain, but still maintain the beauty of the scenery I had before. So I will spend some time rethinking a place, and maintain a hatred of morning news for ruining my day and forcing me to completely reschedule and do a lot of unnecessary work I didn't need to do before. So I'm going to take part in some preventative maintenance for example, I value the condition of my laptop, so I'm going to make a makeshift umbrella holder set on top of my computer table, so If any funny little water won't touch my laptop, and also I had prepared a bag full of cardboard that helps it waterproof so when I record and it starts raining, I can leave the scene without getting my laptop too wet. I believe it's also not too over-engineered to have a process where I can confidently and efficiently disassemble my green screen, close-up laptop bag, take my camera and mic, and pack them up efficiently while carrying everything over to a cover where then I can wait for the rain to pass and recontinue If I would like to or leave when it gets lighter. So in today's blog, we learned that the news cannot be trusted A. The news cannot be trusted and relies on lying to the public about whether to maintain some sort of weird profit margin B. I had to waste time to reschedule, find a new place, and replace a keyboard in order to continue working, I could have used an exterior keyboard but it wouldn't have been the same.