August 2015

Third job is the job at Dataran Merdeka where the Doa Untuk Malaysia's event been held. Here i was assigned as a technical crew and Jimmy Jib's assistant for Mr Helmi Najmee ( Jimmy Jib's Operator ). I work with 3 guys Mr Helmi and Mr Andy to give a live feed for TV Al-Hijrah. We arrived at the location at 15:00 pm from Jelas Juta. We unload the equipment that we going to use from the lorry and setup straight at our position.I started to layer the cable, setup the jimmy jib with Mr Najmee. I setup the walkie talkie to be used for Mr Najmee and Mr Andy. Here we face the environment problem because the raining started at the moment we starting setup. We have to wait for the sky to be clear and then continue our setup at 16:00 pm. After the setup we test the video signal, audio signal. After the signal was clear and really ready to be roll, we wait for the TV Al-Hijrah's team to give us signal to start the camera feed. At 20:00 pm we started the event. We covered when the audience was praying and watching the event where Datuk Seri Najib the prime minister is the guest. At 22:00 pm the event finish and finish our wrap at 23:00 and load in the equipment in the lorry and then go straight home.

                                

 

My next job is The National Day at Merdeka Square. I was assigned as a Jimmy Jib assistant for Mr Najmee again. Here we provide the live feed for RTM with a Jimmy Jib's camera. We arrived at the location in early morning at 7:00 am. Then, we start to setup the Jimmy Jib. After the Jibs was setup, i lay the cable from the Jibs to the Operating Base (OB) Truck. The cable is 500 meter long and has to be lay through their own direction to be safe and neat. This job take 2 days to setup and 3 days to be rehearsal. The calling time through all this entire event is at 5:00 am in the morning because to avoid the traffic. This job teach me the real film industries environment where we have to work either is hot or raining. Have to face the crowd when the event was started. To manage to give the best shot for the client. This is a great knowledge for me to break in the film industries in the future.