Media Mania

Being technologically challenged in this day and age is not a career advantage. In fact, I was lucky enough to have a patient filmmaker wait weeks for me to figure out my new computer before doing a voiceover for his documentary on SOS Children's Villages in South Africa. We had wanted to use my new computer to record. It would have been so simple. But my sound card died in my old computer, and my laptop recently got Alzheimer's, unable to recognize its own operating system. I ultimately had to travel to his 'homegrown' studio in his basement yesterday afternoon.

Complete with sound studio (in an old sauna, covered in black cloth with a ultility light), his sound boards, mixing tables and computer monitors were dazzling. In the end, the microphone he had given me to do home recordings did not work, nor could the sound tech figure out my Windows Vista program in my brand-spanking-new PC. I'm obliged to hire someone, anyone, who might know how to configure a computer. (We did manage to do the voice recording in record time. We nailed the final, most emotional paragraph in three takes. I tried not to cry because the final image in the movie is so beautiful!)

In the meantime, I've been offered the chance to possibly moderate a film for an international IT company. The video production company is in both Augsburg and Munich. The call came today that they need a native speaker to moderate a piece for a PR effort they're heading up soon. I'd be in front of the camera this time. It will be nice to be on that side of the camera for a while, away from the technical side of things. Wish me luck that it actually pans out!