Hey guys, its been a while again… I really have lost the will to update my blog regularly haven’t I? I’ve been so busy the past couple weeks for Miss China Europe 2009. Its our first big project ever and you can imagine a lot of pressure was laid on our shoulder. From 9th till 15th of December I and others were in The Netherlands to capture the girls during their training week. I’m sure you can imagine how much fun that was for us, the film crew and the girls. But it also gave us some sleepless nights because we were short on crew people… Day one only 5 hours of sleep, day two 5 again, day three only 4, day five only 3 and … so on… And because some deadlines I went to bed at 7am in the morning and had to get up at 10am again. zZzZzZz
The week was really awesome, fun, and great. Right now I’m missing everyone from MCE2009, can’t wait for MCE2010!!! This year the film crew people are: Ka Kin, Susan, Wesley, Marc, Kin Wei, Manoe, Steven, Kelvin Tom, Wouter and me. And I’m the CHIEF Camera Man and Animation & Video Editor xD… That sounds soooooo tough isn’t it? During the week I’ve also met a lot of new people like Alex, Marc, … nice to meet you all folks! Looking forward to see you soon again and to work with you guys!
After the training week the D-Day arrived… The final show in front of 1500 people in the theater the girls had to preform and give their best move on stage while the film crew captured the show. We used the following equipments for the capture:
- 4 Sony PMW-EX1 HD camera
- 1 Sony PMW-EX3 HD camera
- 1 Sennheiser ENG set Sennheiser EW 100 G3 + hand micro D46
- 1 IDXtek Wireless HD-Video Transmission System IDX tek CW5 -HDcamwave (Wireless camera pack +-50m)
- 4 Manfrotto 525 Tripods
- 1 Manfrotto Cameradolly 114 MV
- 2 Bebob remote control
- 1 Telex wireless intercom system with 5 body packs and headsets
- 1 RØDE NTG3 Shortgun with 3m boompole
- 1 Sennheiser HSP2 headset
Live mixing:
- 1 Dell 27inch monitor preview monitor
- 1 Panasonic AV-HS400 HD mixer
- 1 Sony PMW-EX30 recorder
- 1 Extron ISS 506 DI/HDSI seamless switch
- 96GB of Sony SxS Pro memory cards
- 500m SDI cables
- 2 multi cables of 40m
Live feed showed in the theater on big screens:
- 2 Panasonic PT-DZ6710 Projectors
- 2 Projecta Fastfold 320 x 427cm screens
- 2 Neovo LCD 15″ SX15A (backstage screens)
- 4 Dell LCD 19″ SE198WFP (jury screens)
- 2 Panasonic Plasma 42″ TH42PH10ES (VIP room screens)
Could be that I’ve forgot some things in the list… but that’s basically what we’ve used during the live caption for the show. All these equipment can be rented at our partner www.stake5.be , check out their awesome prices and services!
In this photo CJ (left on stage with wireless camera), Wesley Oostvogels (center in front of the stage with the shoulder camera), Susan Tang (right in front of the stage as camera support)
In this photo: CJ (on the left), Simwayn Tran(MCE 2009 winner)
The show itself will be broadcasted on TVBS-E (Sat TV) in 48 European country on Saturday 26th of December at 9pm GMT. You can imagine we’re very proud of what we’ve accomplished on that day… The fact that our work will be broadcasted on TV, it just only can happen in your wildest dream xD for a beginner. I still have some editing to do like promotional video clips for the show itself, it has to be done today. Should be ok I think ^^.
Everyone would think a pageant is just pure looks… well they’re not really right or fault. During the week we’ve learn a lot of it and sometime its not easy to do the right thing. But we’ve tried and do the thing that we though it was right .
I guess you want to know who won this year?
Its Simwayn from the Netherlands, 19 years old. She’s easy going, fun, wonderful girl and …. keep it going 
You know what’s funny? From day one during the audition we (the film crew) already knew she would ended in the top 3 or even win the pageant. So we’re really glad we had it right ^^. She’ll be representing Europe during the Miss China International Pageant contest in Hong Kong during the summer. Don’t forget to support her, she really deserve to win!!!
There is a possibility that we might get the project for a reality soap/documentary in HK during the summer. Details are being discussed with all the people that are in charge.
The coming weeks I’ll be working at Makro (again), for 2 weeks or so, really need the money . After that there are some project waiting for me again. I’ve been called while I was in NL by someone saying they want me for a project. Haven’t contact them yet because I’m soooooo busy gosh…
But anyway, that how it went the past couple of weeks. ^^