What...a...day!! =0
(before i proceed i with the rest of my backlogging i'd just like to warn that i've given up on "proper English" so excuse the lack of capitals, apostrophies, spelling, grammar and sense)
i was a little bit apprehensive of this weekend. i was a fool. today has been one of the most rewarding and enjoyable saturdays i've had for a while. i'm so glad i put my name down to take part in this project...
the day started with me and the guys (Reece, Liz, Ollie and Laura) being briefed on what we are to do shortly before the first talk of the day commenced. up came Neil Roberts, an actor who's been in Charmed, Love Soup, Beverly Hills 90210, Babylon 5 and old coffee adverts. he's the closest that Britain has to Hugh Grant apart from Hugh Grant. the man was filthy (jokes wise) as a remarkable amount of inuendos poured out of his rather posh mouth. i worked with Liz on one of the three cameras and it went pleasantly smoothly to help settle nerves.
the day rolled on and we took it in turns to operate the live cameras that stream onto the large television screens placed next to the stage and around the hotel as well as vision mix for guest speakers including, Robert Picardo, Peter Jurasik, Stephen Furst and Mary McDonnell, all stars of various sci-fi shows.
in between talks we were given a very nice camera and microphone to wonder around with and capture anything that we wanted to from around the hotel in all its sci-fi conventiony glory. we started out by interviewing some very friendly and enthusiastic visitors and asked them to re-enact any favourite death scenes from anything Science-Fictiony. that went well and was enjoyable. we soon found out something even more satisfying. if you walk around with a flashy camera complete with flashy microphone, you get...privileges. we were actually allowed to get into the green room where the stars stayed and didnt need to queue up for access to the autograph room. this meant that we could actually film professional, internationally known actors that hundreds of people had paid hundreds of pounds to see for free. the actors were great and we got an interview from everyone of them apart from Mary McDonnell or Mary as i think of her now (we count as friends now in my opinion) who was the star of the weekend and understandably busy at all times. We shared eye contact for a few seconds during the meal which is something i'm secretly chuffed about.
The evening saw perhaps my personal highlight of the day. I got to work with a Bond girl. Caroline Munro to be precise who played as Naomi in The Spy Who Loved Me *shivers from realising how much of an honour it is to have done this in my life*. I followed her on camera as she interviewed various visitors (fans) and celebs and it was (to take a copyrighted cereal slogan) grrrreeeeeattttt (apologies to Tony the tiger and everyone connected with Frosties breakfast cereal). our hands briefly touched as she wanted to see how the camera felt so I, Adrian Permata Scanlon, have touched a Bond girl *shivers again*. (these shivers are the "Oh my Gosh how amazing is this" variety of shiver as opposed to the "eww gross" line of shivers. i'm making sense to me which is all i care about mwahahaha >:D
I also managed to achieve a personal target that I created for myself, I managed to make every famous person I saw laugh (with me). Happy days.
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