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Finding out your all-day exterior has no electricity to charge batteries and run DIT...

When the DP tells me s/he is pulling focus for this shot...

What I say...

What I really feel...

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Whenever drone/heli unit has downtime...

Forgetting to unpatch the camera from video village before you move it...

When the actor makes eye contact with you during blocking...

Practicing the snap zoom...

Wireless video...

When it works:

When it doesn't work:

When you can't clean that one fingerprint...

When the art department asks to borrow some tape...

When work seems to slow down the second you put a heavy camera on your shoulder...

When you go to cut the camera and see you never started rolling...

When someone keeps talking about why one camera is better than another one...

Alexa as described by an AC...

That time you rolled the camera because something funny was happening in frame...

Taking the handheld rig between takes...

When the DP acknowledges that pulling focus wide open with a moving dolly and a moving subject on a 135mm lens is difficult...

The Camera Assistant