VCU vs ODU

2:00-10:30

VCU on ESPN2

Just thought I'd take a few minutes to recollect my experience yesterday at the basketball when VCU played on ESPN2 against Old Dominion. Overall, it was a great experience, just not the outcome i was looking for at the end of the game, we were up, but maybe some crucial mistakes in the end, we wound up losing in a heartbreaker. Anytime you play on tv like that, there are always big crews, which means you have to work around everyone else. We showed up at the studio at 2 and didn't get out of Siegel Center until 11:00, it was a late night, not a bad day of work though, we did really well on the setup and breaking down lsat night. We only had minor problems with the equipment, we just got back the Mark IIIs (canon) recently, and they've been acting up again, just something different this time. We kept getting a "error 99" message, the camera just had to be turned off and back on, but its inconvenient when it happens to your remote cameras, you have to track them down, screw around a bit, not very reliable. Besides that, everything else worked out nicely. We also experimented with a new pocket wizard configuration, originally we thought it would take less pocket wizards, but it doesn't. There is an advantage to it though, we are able to trigger multiple cameras just by shooting with our hand-held, so we can get multiple angles from one shot, it works out nicely, we just have to compensate for the shutter lag between the different cameras, whenever we get that figured out, everything should be great. Wish I had more to discuss but thats about all that was new for the shoot last night, we have another game on wednesday so we should be fine. I'm looking forward to the CAA tournament thats coming up in March, should be exciting and also bring in some good money, which I could really use at this point.