From the “Insanity in the City” Files
Monday, April 19, 2004
Recorded by Trainee #06, JC at around 11:47 PM
RE: DAY 2
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We were back to our casuals at ten o’clock in the morning, for our technically second day at Filmless Films. Two of the other FF people were there, the usual two whom we often meet around. Since they both have the same first names, we’ll just call them K1 and K2: K1′s also the Project Coordinator of .mov, this soft spoken girl who attended to us when we first passed our resumes. I don’t know what k2 does (I mean, her position per se, since of course I’m sure she does a lot), but she had made her mark on me as this smile-a-lot girl who seemed pretty sincere with her humor, and she seemed very nice too. K1′s almost the same only in a rather shy/soft manner, and we’re thankful for that, since at least the atmosphere inside FF is something we might easily get used to, aside from that we also do not have to contend with snobbish people.

We had to wait for two hours because apparently Ms. C, the head who’ll supervise us, was out and was doing something somewhere else, so we had to wait for further orders. K1 and K2 did their best to talk to us despite their works, so they made themselves more endearing to us than they intended to.

By around twelve the three of us, Jurette, EJ and I, were called to go down the building to meet up with Ms. C who we later on found inside a waiting taxi somewhere near the area. Jeff and Raymund, our other two classmates who went to have their OJT with us at Filmless Films too, stayed inside the office with the two Ks. Later on we learned they were just inside the office the whole day, fiddling with Photoshop filters.

We went to Hit Productions, this Ad production that had their own recording studio. One of their main people is Rivermaya’s Rico Blanco, told Ms. C while we were on the cab going to Makati Cinema Square. Actually I recall Hit Productions’ name from JD, my classmate whose buddy Raissa worked for the production, and true enough, when we got there I found Raissa on their waiting area/canteen. She thought I was doing my training at Saatchi, but she was nevertheless glad to see me; she was one of my seniors back when our organization was at full blast in producing departmental TV productions. We were then ordered to copy a few papers, after which we took lunch, then headed to the production area. They were dubbing something for the client FF was currently working an AVP for, so we just looked around how they were editing the stuff, although we were aware how those things are done anyway. After an hour or so we all went down with the client’s contact to discuss some things regarding a shoot the next day.

Ms. C started to brief us about what the whole shoot’s going to be about after the clients were gone and we were just waiting for the final output. Apparently, since there was going to be a shoot for the next day, she wanted us to scout the place with us, after we pick up the guy who’s going to be the director for that production. We started to like her immediately. She seemed to always reach out to us, telling stuff about anything as we go around. From Makati we headed to Quezon City after we picked Gen, Ms. C’s nephew who’s the director for that production. Bringing a video camera along (still cam is better, Gen argues, but with the availability of it, the video cam would just have to suffice), Gen took shots of the area while we wandered around taking notes from Ms. C’s directions. Just looking around the area took us until 7pm. Goodness.

Afterwards, we went to Khavn’s place to look for some DVDs that can be used for the production. When only a few turned up, we looked for some in Video 48, this store with a vast collection of videos up near Mushroom Burger.

Never thought it would actually be that exhausting for our first day–actually, it’s the change of locations that made us exhausted. Tomorrow, we’re needed to be in Makati at 5 am. Oh lord.

(Blog transfer from the now down http://ojtfiles.blogspot.com:
The Dummkopf goes to the city…to, uh, work? Oh God.)