Be cool: Cops. Look old.

Yesterday I went to my internship for the second time. I'm working at a company in Petach Tikvah that translates to "Media Communication." Catchy, right? Media serves as a production company as well as a radio station (they operate the local public radio station 104 FM.) Media also has a small "virtual studio" which they rent out to various productions. It's called this because everything is painted green and a CGI set is chroma-ed over (fancy TV talk for projected). It looks incredibly fake, but at the same time is incredibly awesome.

I had an 8 AM call-time yesterday, because we were going to be doing a remote shoot. My boss didn't give me any details except that I would be doing boom, so I wasn't really looking forward to it. Wasn't I pleasantly surprised, then, when Yaron (my boss), told me upon arrival that I'd be doing camera instead.

The shoot was fairly interesting. We went to the police station to spend the day with some officers. I was about to step into the front of a police car to tape them while driving, but they got a call on the radio about gas-filled balloons (a potential bomb) down the streat. So that was out. Instead, we ended up tagging along with a few volunteer and community police officers. I learned that in Israel, community police are a little bit of a seperate entity. Their job is mantain relationships with local businesses and schools and other similar places. If the owners/teachers/etc. have a problem, they report it to the community officer. I'm not sure what the community police do if there are problems, but I bet it's something nasty.

Although the day was fairly interesting, it could be frustrating at times. I couldn't understand anything; everything was in Hebrew. This made it difficult for me to film since I never knew what I was supposed to be covering or when to start or when to stop. It also prevented me from getting to really talk to the police officers that much, since they were constantly talking to each other in Hebrew and I didn't want to interrupt.

If you live in Israel and are interested, the production I'm working on airs next Wednesday at 7 PM on channel 94. For stateside readers, Yaron told me that Media streams live, but I don't know how to do this and the website (http://www.mtpt.co.il/) is entirely in Hebrew. If anyone wants to watch, I'll work on getting a more specific link. Just know that I have no idea what the show is about or if it's any good so I can't really recommend it whole-heartedly or even half-heartedly.

Ok byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.