Hi.Today, or rather tonight, I want to tell you about a very special experience that I had a few weeks ago: our office was visited by the crew of a maritime TV channel from Amsterdam. Of course, makes perfect sense,-world's first exclusively maritime channel Sea TV should have been formed in Holland! This small northern country has been battling with and exploring the sea all it's history. God only knows how many maritime words have Dutch origin and how many powerful seascapes were painted by the Dutch masters. In our technological age, Holland presents the mankind with maritime TV.And it so happens that it finds the work we do at Seafarer Help very interesting. Great!But with this interest comes the idea of creating a program in which Seafarer Help should be featured. And that latter turns our humble office into a film studio.
Oh, yes, with all the necessary ingredients- bright, hot and almost blinding lights, attentive cameras, big and small microphones, athmosphere of exitement and of course slight panic. How do we look, are we forgetting our text, are we being convincing, is our articulation good enough? So many questions and doubts!It truly reminds me my training in drama school, and most of all the dreaded outcome of all the lessons, attempts to learn the lines, working with the charachter- the final performance. It is SCARY!
But is it really? It is clearly very enjoyable too!It is so enjoyable to hear my colleagues presenting our service in their native languages, it is so pleasurable to feel how courage awakes within you and just allows you to simply be even in front of the watchful cameras.Especially when our director and a camera man compliment our "performance", the entire process of shooting turns into a pure fun. I can feel that people around me grow bolder and start to "fly". Well,considering the nature of our work, we should be really swimming, or at least sailing, but we clearly were flying.
The day passes quickly. One take is followed by the other, we are asked to repeat our announcements and "scenes" again and again. Finally we are told that everything seems to work, all words are heard and pronounced correctly, everyone is looking into a right direction, the pace and the mood of the filmed material is right...
I hope that this "film" will help to present ISAN to a wider audience and that it'll make more people want to contact us, and that these future contacts will be coloured by trust and true compassion.
Oh, yes, with all the necessary ingredients- bright, hot and almost blinding lights, attentive cameras, big and small microphones, athmosphere of exitement and of course slight panic. How do we look, are we forgetting our text, are we being convincing, is our articulation good enough? So many questions and doubts!It truly reminds me my training in drama school, and most of all the dreaded outcome of all the lessons, attempts to learn the lines, working with the charachter- the final performance. It is SCARY!
But is it really? It is clearly very enjoyable too!It is so enjoyable to hear my colleagues presenting our service in their native languages, it is so pleasurable to feel how courage awakes within you and just allows you to simply be even in front of the watchful cameras.Especially when our director and a camera man compliment our "performance", the entire process of shooting turns into a pure fun. I can feel that people around me grow bolder and start to "fly". Well,considering the nature of our work, we should be really swimming, or at least sailing, but we clearly were flying.
The day passes quickly. One take is followed by the other, we are asked to repeat our announcements and "scenes" again and again. Finally we are told that everything seems to work, all words are heard and pronounced correctly, everyone is looking into a right direction, the pace and the mood of the filmed material is right...
I hope that this "film" will help to present ISAN to a wider audience and that it'll make more people want to contact us, and that these future contacts will be coloured by trust and true compassion.
posted by Seafarerhelp at 7:55 PM
1 Comments:
Hi Seafarer Help blogger,
This is a message from Leon Rasser who just saw the images of the recordings in the studio. I don't know which one is you but in general everything looked really cool. Unfortunately it will take some months before the whole program is ready but from that time your helpline will be better known than ever before!
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