This page documents the journey of four individuals from Singapore, currently on their 3-month internship programme in San Francisco. My name is Shawn, and I am the writer for this particular post.
First, allow me to introduce the four of us.
Taken on Twin Peaks. From left to right: Kenneth Yoong - Loke Zheng Hao (Wind) - Debbie Lin - Shawn Ang
For most of us, it is our first time visiting America, and upon arriving we know straightaway that this is a country way different than any other we have ever visited. It's Day 4 now, and we're still adjusting to life here.
We intern at 1Light Media, a production company at the Cornerstone Academy. The people we've met here so far have been great hosts, eager to show us around the city, and showing us how things are run here.
When it comes to work, we really hit the ground running. On the night of the second day we were already involved in a shoot with 1Light Media. Following that was another day of night shoot outdoors in the cold with even colder winds.
On set, 6 Degrees Celsius
It was 6 degrees celsius on the second night of shoot, and being Singaporeans used to the ungodly scorching weather back home, we wore the most layers of clothing to protect ourselves, and STILL couldn't take the cold. Wind and Kenneth wore five layers. It was a new experience. Even though I've been up in Norway shooting the Northern Lights in temperatures far below zero degrees Celsius, working on set is so much more different. There's so much more equipment and many things to move around, I arrived at the conclusion that I prefer being on shoots in tropical climates, or wherever the temperature's comfortable. Lesser clothes, easier to move around and get things done :)
So far, we've been involved in a multicam production as well. Again, also a different experience, compared to past multicam productions we've been on in the past. Here, we get to learn how to operate remote cameras, adjusting camera settings remotely, mixing audio as well as vision mixing. All of us are rotating through the roles at the moment, we hope that all of us will be proficient in handling it on our own eventually.
On the fun side of things, we've been to a few places of attraction as well. Nope, not the Golden Gate Bridge, we haven't had the chance to go that far. The places we have been to though, are just as nice.
The well-known Pier 39!
Like the well-known Pier 39 down at Fisherman's Wharf. It's what many people call a 'tourist trap', and it has good reason to be. The clam chowder here is DELICIOUS. And there's much more other than food to keep your money rolling to them.
Oh! Sea Lions!
We also made a trip up to the Twin Peaks, where we saw a view of the city and fog, so majestic that I think I would hesitate going back to the Marina Bay Sands Skypark for the view. We spent a couple of hours here braving cold winds while taking photos.
On the Edge
Kenneth brought along a newly-purchased GoPro Hero3, which he uses to capture video blogs. I'll end off with his first video blog entry, which shows a very-excited Kenneth recording our long journey over from Singapore. You can watch it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR15GtpV5tQ
And that's that, this is Shawn Ang, signing off.
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