How the other half lives...

Today's pics... Night shooting for ids... A million dollar + view in the daylight... Taking over a neighborhood... The million + view at night. The city shots were taken from the 7th floor of the Villagio on the south side of Indianapolis. Pretty sweet...

We wrapped up shooting yesterday with the Steadicam but I forgot to bring my camera for that one. Oops. The shots we got at the Villagio were absolutely beautiful. We shot them on HD and our anchors looked gorgeous.

I love night shoots. I hate the long day that usually goes with them... but it always seems worth it if the fates aligns to give you beautiful shots. The fates were indeed kind. I can't wait to get the transfers back. This should make the competition a little green with envy. At least we hope so! :-)

The Steadicam shoot was interesting. I was a bit rushed for my part of it (late anchors) but I saw some shots that I'm hoping will look as kickass on a big screen as they did in that small monitor I was watching. Fingers are crossed...

I think the pace is about to pick up at work. A lot of things seem to be materializing in the pipe and rushing at us with quite a bit of speed. I may not have much time to post in the next few weeks but I'll try...

Finally...

My days of being the Susan Lucci of the promotion department are over. It only took nine nominations but last night I finally won a freaking Emmy. Oddly it was for a promo I came in and did on a weekend because there were a lot of reservations from management about doing it. It was decided that I would put it together so we could show off a finished product instead of trying to explain what it would look like. It paid off then and apparently now. How about that?

Unfortunately we didn't do so well in some other categories. It's tough when you think your co-workers have the best stories but don't take home the trophy. Just to show you how fickle the whole process is, however, one of our reporters won ever major award for an investigative piece, including a Peabody, then didn't even get nominated for the Emmy. Weird.

Research is back so we'll soon have a new slew of promos to produce. In the meantime I've been wrapping up all the launch and re-launch work for our My Network affiliate. Tomorrow will be the worst of it then it should get considerably easier. I do have promo shoots the first three days of the week. I'll bring my camera along since we'll be working with a Steadicam on one of them.

Back in action...

I've been a little remiss in updating this blog recently. Truthfully I haven't had a whole lot to report. Work has been busy but there are no huge projects on my plate at the moment. I'm sure that will all change once we get our research back at the end of this week.

Saturday was SkyConcert - the Labor Day fireworks show in downtown Indy. I worked most of the day setting up our station's tent and handing out goodies to everyone. Man, you want attention at your booth at any event... get a prize wheel. People flock to it like it's crack. I'm not a fan of participating at events but I don't absolutely hate it, either. I'm just happier sitting in my edit booth or working on a script in my nice air conditioned office than mingling with the masses.

I'm getting more involved with our web projects which has been very educational. I spent Thursday in our regional internet director's office trying to come up with a tag line and promotion campaign for a new site we're working on. When I left we were pretty up beat about some of the ideas we generated. Right now I have to admit that this is the project that's got my creativity sparking. It's nice to step outside your comfort zone every now and then - especially when you don't fall flat on your face...

I'll be serving in more of a special projects producer role this coming Monday. I'm sworn to secrecy about the shoot for now, but I can say that it's a huge interview and that there are lots of cameras involved. The reporter actually asked me to come which I thought was nice. I'm not usually a fixture on interviews. I'm the one who promotes that we have them.

Off to paint my spare room. Hope everyone has a nice Labor Day!