…The Tape Machine from HELL!!!!!
Imagine this, you get to the station. Make your way through the morning meeting. Receive your assignment from the lovely assignment editor. You get lucky it’s something visual. You and the reporter of your liking hit the streets. Your interview welcomes you with open arms giving you carte blanche to shoot to your heart’s desire. Somehow you finish early and even manage to get something decent to eat that requires a knife & fork rather than a drive thru. You arrive back at the station, the producers are stoked about your story and all of them want it. You head to the edit bay put the tape to start logging sound and then it happens. An evil from the unknown decides to have your Emmy winning story for an afternoon snack. GASP!!!!
Nothing puts fear in a photographer than having a hard day of work put at the mercy of a clogged head in the tape machine. No choice but to call an engineer to perform an exorcism and save the lead story for news. Thankfully all wasn’t lost. The great video was saved, you get the story ready for air, your reporter stopped freaking out long enough to front the lead, and you somehow managed to survive your shift. The first round at happy hour is on you.I can’t count the number the times machines have eaten my tapes in the past. Thankfully we’ve been weaned of them and into the non linear age but the fear is always there. You never know when the machines will become possessed.
Better hit CTRL – S before something happens, did you know?
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