SHOOTING...

Yesterday ( 24 June 2008 ) I had an on location assignment. Aida had been away for 4 days and will only be back from Jakarta in the evening. Jihan had to attend meetings so it was only me who was available to accompany Javerd and his team for the shooting.

At 11 am, we met up at the entrance of National Science Centre. Azra from Smart Reader Worldwide came a little bit later and directed us to the Quantum Auditorium which will be the location for the Spelling Challenge Writing Contest and there will be another auditorium for the oral section but we cannot get into the hall since there was a conference going on.

Azra explained about the whole event. Basically, Smart Reader Spelling Challenge is designated for 4- 6 young kids and there will be two parts; oral and written. Written will only be about 5 minutes and oral will take longer time. There will be regional level where every centre, nation wide will carry out the contest and the best from each state will be competing in Kuala Lumpur on the 3rd July. What's so special about this event is the kids will not be spelling words as it is normally done but they will do phonics spelling. The children will have to spell the words in English, Malay and Mandarin.

We then decided to meet up at Smart Reader Worldwide's headquarters at 2.00 pm because Javerd will be doing Dr. Wang's interview shoot. When we met up later, Javerd thought of asking me to ask questions to Dr. Wang as if in normal interview session but Azra told us that Dr. Wang has her speech ready and will just speak to the camera. Phew!!! that's better...

Having the opportunity to be involved in such situation was a good and beneficial experience. Every aspect is crucial in a shooting...lighting, angle and even noise... We had to switch off the air cond because it distracted the sound reception...