Well,the day of shooting dawned,i was all set with the armaments required ...hmm my first enemy lay within me..THE SLEEPING cells in my body!!
yes i had to fight sleep.get up as early as 5(which is in the usual days midnight for me!!..so in theory i was burning the midnight oil when repoting ...haha) to enter the battlefield of reporters to cover the chennai marathon at ELLIOT'S beach with my favourite armament..my favourite HC40E sony video camera..lol sounds like name of a complex machine eh?
i went there expecting a crowd of press and media..but to my surpse..we that is me and my friend were the only people as ppl from the press...yes we wore the t-shirts exclusive meant for meia persons and buoy wt effect it had on ppl arnd...right from police personnels to the organisers of the chennai marathon filled us in with updates..the number of runners..who's leading wts, gonna happen next...actually elliot's beach happened to be the turn around place of the marathon..that is from there the runners headed back to the labour statue at marina wr the marathon began, for the finishing line!!
anywyas back to my first experience of covering a live event liek this... we had a team of 7 ppl covering this event at various locations in chennai..two persons at a location each...my friends were at marina and i with another friend at elliots..and we commnicated with each other using the boon to amnkind..our MOBILES...and spoke to each other with cameras rolling as though we were talking to a person in the studio!!!lol..and ofcourse we were quiet convincing too,....
i enjoyed reporting live..well aprt from the occasions falterings and fumblings...i mangaed it pretty well..
after finishing our job at elliot's beach..me and my friend headed off to marina beach to meet our other friends and to our amazement and surprise...the man in lead in the chennai men's marathon was running besides our car...so we captured his winning stretch on our camera , much to our contentment!!
after that we spent time at the finish line trying to get video bytes of the winners and then covering a whole lot of activities tehre. then teh entire team gave aan enduing shot on camera all enthusiatic and happy at covering the event and our first live assignment as electronic media
student!
well, as someone great nicely said,
running is like life,its quite a distance, but well worth it..
today, a small incident made me realize that life is to move on and not harp on the past...i have been living in the past glory and memories..but its time for me to wake up from my dreams and face the reality..no one waits for anyone..one has to be on one's own and make it till its end..survival,thats the word we all live by...NO MATTER T HAPPENES, I WILL SURVIVE...thats the human spirit.
its easier said than done, but i hope to make it to the end soon...all by myself!!
cheers
lavanya
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