Hitting The Road - Marina

My day today started at 4 a.m.

Yes! I'm learning now how it is to work with broadcast!! Just crazy times and schedule!!

I went with Tabitha and Ed, who is the Streaming Media Specialist here at ETV, to Charleston this morning. We left at 5 a.m. and arrived there around 6:30 a.m., with the sunrise. We went there to get some footage for a documentary about the Yorktown that ETV has been working on. The Yorktown is one of the aircrafts carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy.

Charleston

We got there and we started to set up the equipment. Ed just took this quadcopter out of his bags, which is like a small drone able to carry a GoPro camera for 8 minutes of flight time. I was like wow!! That's awesome! What was even better was to watch Ed piloting that small drone. It gets reaaaally high above the ground. You definitely need a lot of experience to control it. He took some shots of the outside of the ship and when he was done we went inside so Tabitha could record some b-roll for the documentary. It was just great being there and observing how they do their work out in the field and get some ideas for different shots!!

Ed piloting the quadcopter

And of course, after waking up so early and getting a lot of work done, we had to stop somewhere to have lunch. At 10:30 we went to a restaurant close to the beach but they were not opened until 11. So... We decided to go for a walk at the beach to kill some time!!! The weather was just great and since nobody was there to take a pic of us we just took a "selfie"!!

Selfie: Tab, Ed and I

The day went by really fast and when I got back to ETV around 1:30 p.m. I went to a meeting about the political debates that will be going on during the next three weeks. It was nice to meet everyone who will be helping with the organization of the debates and I just love being part of the team :)

The day was just a success!!