Cristal Camden + Melissa S.

Saturday night, what to do...

To start off a little earlier, I had hurt my ankle on Wednesday and could barely walk. Things didn't look like it was getting any better and spent my Friday night resting on the coach. Saturday I head into work, get an edit going and take care of some paperwork and other forms that I had to get done.

I arrange for a guy to meet my camera op for another job to drop off and pick up the tapes, fixed the on camera light (so I thought), and arranged everything for my shoot out in the city with the expected 20 something playboy playmates and a performance by Melissa S.

Well come 4pm and I haven't heard anything from my production assistant (friend from town) that is suppose to go help me shoot, the guy that was going to drop off and pick up the tapes got called into San Jose so he canceled on me. I hadn't heard from anyone all day.

Well, 7pm finally comes around and everyone decides to call me back, thankfully. My DP for the local shoot said he could swing by the office for me so that worked out nice. and the guy that was going to head out with me to the city said he was ready as well.

We leave late and still get to club 525 early because since they are rehearsing they wont let anyone in. not even the extra camera guy that is suppose to be filming for the club. Because partially because I'm not a DP, my ankle was messed up, and I just didn't want to film, I had brought with me another friend that is looking to build his reel.

Things were going good, we all luckily got in once the manager of the club got there. At least we didn't have any major set up as we did last time with the interview I did with Donnie Klang. People were starting to pile in even though it was still very early, and by about 11 or so we started to get some good shots. p.i.n.k. and Jetset Energy were two of the event sponsors for the night so it was good talking to them in regards to an upcoming series I'm working on. Hopefully they will help us out.

Things were going fine. Then, our dam on camera light went out. The dam light is suppose to last for like 1,000 hours or something like that and we've used it for maybe 10 hours total. And the bad thing was, we only had about 10 minutes of footage at that point and the whole night left to go. And might I add, we did not have a spare.

Luckily once it was time for Melissa S's performance the lighting was good enough for us to capture her act. which, I was rather impressed by. I haven't heard her before or even knew who she was prior to this but she looks good. And she can sing also.

Shortly after her performance it was time for the playboy playmate bikini runway show. Which really turned out to just be hosted by one playboy playmate, Cristal Camden. It was still a good show with some good models up there. We were lucky enough to use the light provided for the runway show. We finished up taping after the runway show and packed up the camera.

So all in all it was a good night. Got a couple good shots, more importantly got the camera into Roberts hands so he could get some additional experience. The club still had another 30 minutes till last call and there just happened to be a girl there offering to buy us a drink. I'm sure it would have been rude to refuse. So my friend made a new friend, and we hung out till the bar closed before taking off. The day started off questionable but the night ended pretty good. Even though I hate when we run into problems in a shoot, this was more for the experience of the crew I brought with me and I had fun. Just another reason I love my job.