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It was my first cinematography class. Cool classmates, wide range of equipment, mouth watering cameras around and with Patrick speaking in Hindi...I felt comfortable in the new place and environment. The project was to shoot a promotional introductory video of the whole creative department(mainly film department) to be screened in India and China. Students were assigned to shoot it but obviously without Patrick and Ash we would have shot something that would bring down the rate of admissions from Asia.
Mr.Dan handled the camera for the 'day 1' shoot. Basically, Patrick would give an introduction of himself and talk about the course and the Institute. Dan had to pick a frame which would look best and professional and I believe he managed to do so. We used Canon XF305 to shoot the whole thing. I was handling the audio, that is, standing in a funny posture and holding the boom mic close enough to record the dialogues.

Glimpses of Patrick's performance!

The second part consisted of Virat(an Indian student) sharing his experience of SIT with the audience and talking about his journey from 1st year to 2nd year. He was like a pro. Finished it in 2-3 takes. Kimberly did a good job of filming that while I continued making funny postures for recording the audio.

I volunteered to do a quick B-roll shoot of Virat directing a shoot in the end. I think I did good but not good enough. Clock was ticking I kept loosing my concentration. The feedback from Patrick was really helpful.

I must tell you, there was another team filming us filming the introductions of Patrick and Virat.

That means, 

"X filmed Y while Y filmed Z"