Well, there is no perfect way to ease you into the description of the brief year I spent working at DhiTV, Broadcasting Maldives. Fortunately for you, my friend Ula has summarized this experience beautifully in her own way, and I quote:
“…team work;
parties in the studio after end of transmission;
pranks;
dares;
eating maggots,
watching and barfing,
being covered in flour,
living at the station
during 24hr,
special transmissions,
tripping over hibernating technicians,
elections,
first scoop on news,
political scandals,
dinner at 2 am after shootings,
racing to dinner,
van vs crew on motorbikes,
being stuck on the lift;
the scandalous lift…
the things you would have seen.”
- From the blogpost “Shedding” by Aminath Ula Ahmed – [View Ula's blog]
Believe it or not..that’s an impeccably accurate description.
We worked our asses off in that little office. I found this in my portfolio and thought to share; the video below is the first 6 minutes of a little experimental dramatic film Ula and I made during early 2009. This was our first attempt at making anything film-ish and the thing took 2 days to complete. It wasn’t made to broadcast or anything like that, but as a learning experience to work with limited budget, time, locations, participants and expertise. There’s a lot to be improved, hopefully next time.
Ula and I would both like to thank our crew; especially Appe’, for the whole fun day of shooting, Hussein with his light, and Moddy with his music. We also appreciate Al, Usaa and Ina for their wonderful participation.
ENVY
Location: Male’, Hulhumale’
Crew: 4
Budget: MRF100 ($7)
Total time spent (filming, editing etc): 48 hours