| Thursday
April 19th |
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| Ebru
and Ahmet informed me that we were to visit an outside broadcast that was
to record a music show, with folk dancing out in the open air in the
grounds of a large Hotel, just a few miles up the coast. There we met a
very nice producer speaking perfect English who showed me what he intended
to do, where the cameras were going to be and then asked me what I thought
about his plans and would any lighting make it better? |
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In the gardens of the Hotel |
| I
took a deep breath and gave him the benefit of my thoughts on location
lighting in intense sunshine knowing full well that TRT Izmir didn’t
have the means to ‘fill’ using lamps or even to reflect sunlight at
that point in time. |
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| After
a pleasant lunch and a walk around the grounds, we didn’t have the time
to stay and watch the show, so we returned to the studio where I was to
give a seminar to Producers and designers. I did it from my laptop via an
RGB converter to a Plasma screen, which was not at all satisfactory.
Fuzzy, incomplete pictures meant that the 50 or so people who turned up
were not best entertained. |
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A pleasant working lunch |
| However,
Ahmet and Ebru seemed very happy with the way that the session went.
Perhaps I was being too fussy. |
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The sun goes down.... |
| It
was a calm, spring like evening and later we went by ferry to the other
side of the bay to take a rather nice seafood meal on board a large boat
with lovely views of the sun going down over the Mediterranean. |
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...and we take a boat across the bay |
