Crawl for Haiti filming log

Things I learned from my first DFTV shoot:

• The streets on an early Sunday morning are weird: full of the old who have been up for hours, and the young who have yet to go to sleep 
• We're going to need considerably warmer socks
• Starbucks cups can easily be mistaken for manna from heaven
• Weight-lifting classes would be a sound investment
• If you have capacious pockets, they will be used
• Wear sturdy boots 
• Seven hours in the rain makes my hair look like Monica's in the Bahamas  
• Be sure to switch the mic input to "front" before you do the interview
• When you ask people to be silent, they hear "feel free to whisper"
• Camera crews, or maybe just me, attract weirdos (I quote: "Hey, you're that babe off of Hollyoaks", no crazy old guy, I'm not, now please leave me alone!)
• Non-weirdos are very unlikely to want to be interviewed, especially the vain ones
• Training comes back to you in emergency situations
• Camera bags get heavier in the rain; much heavier 
• As tired as we were, our subject must have been infinitely more-so, since he managed to cover 8 miles up and down a rainy hill on all fours

 In conclusion: a very good day's work, we learned a lot, and it was just what I needed all in all.