After an executive committee meeting for ALTA this morning, my day switched gear and ended up being completely taken up filming footage for a new Channel 10 science show called Scope. It’s being produced by the same crew who do Totally Wild, and I gather it’s a similar target audience (8-14 year olds). The producer, camera guy and audio guy were all really nice people, which certainly helped put me more at ease.

My job was to deliver 3 short 90 second segments on camera, explaining 3 different pieces of technology: mp3 players, mobile phones and the internet. Sounds simple huh? Should take maybe 30 minutes? Think again!! First of all, each of those 90 seconds is split into several different grabs, each of which must be recorded at least a couple of times to give the editors enough to play with (not to mention all the times I stuffed up my lines! ). Add into that the need to select and change scenes for each of those grabs, wait for planes etc to finish flying overhead to stop messing up the audio track etc. Not to mention changing my clothes three times (once for each segment), finding a suitable location for each of the segments, and doing some voice-over recording for other footage in each segment.

I’m quite sure when the show finally goes to air that I’ll die of embarassment, especially seeing as I was coerced into “surfing” the internet in board shorts and a hawaiian shirt!! Not sure I’ll live that down in a hurry! Still, it was a tiring and enjoyable day – a different experience that I don’t regret one bit. Not sure I’m quite ready to give up my day job just yet …