My One-Man Production Team
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by: kaylatyler19
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A segment producer/writer/reporter for a California-based television network – my job in a nutshell. With multiple job descriptions in the bag, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that while most girls my age endure 9-to-5 work shifts, I have 95 hours worth of work each week. As a one-man production team, I do virtually everything, from coming up with a working concept to creating a full-blown script to reporting on-cam.
Being my own team proves to be beneficial in a lot of ways that all the hard labor pays off. For one I get a cozy Riverside limo service all to myself, including a complementary bottle of bubbly, every time I run work-related errands in town. When I have to go intercity, there’s always a Chino Hills limo or a Montclair limousine to shuttle me around. It doesn’t end with snazzy transportation; accommodation is a star in its own right – four or five stars, if I may. And don’t forget that above all perks, there’s the generous weekly paycheck.
Because there’s practically no one to push and motivate me to work, I admit that I tend to slack off sometimes. I remember the first – and hopefully last – incident wherein I decided to do things haphazardly. I had to do a hotel feature with the rest of the reporters in Rancho Cucamonga – limo service, luxury amenities, comfortable lifestyle; the works as they call it. Perhaps out of too much comfort that it slipped my mind that I was there for work, that I was actually the welcoming party of the rest of the network anchors and reporters.
There was a whole segment to be shot on location, opening and closing billboard included, and absolutely no ideas entering my brain. Blame the frozen cocktails that my head felt like it was spinning, spinning. That’s where I got the idea for the opening and closing billboard – which was only half of the assignment.
With my head spinning, I thought of having all the anchors and reporters do a little spinning motion as they said their spiel, like how the 3D models in The Sims twirl around whenever you modify them. Well, that juxtaposed against frames showing news as it happens. A good hour or so was spent spinning ‘til everyone got dizzy. No good shots were taken as everything registered as plain motion blur. Some reporters had to be fetched by a Corona limo service and be taken to a medical facility.
For some reason the director liked the raw shots, thinking all the while the blurred shots were ‘shadows’ and ‘misty figures’ from the ‘haunted hotel’ we featured. Two thumbs up for the one-man team, boss said enthusiastically.
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