My first experience with TV comes with downslides. Went for a human interest story very close to my heart today. I was to interview kids with either visual impairment or very low vision whose paintings had been displayed at the government museum and art gallery.
What a story it was. When i first chanced on the said paintings, i was moved…a thousand questions popped up in my head. What is the world to these kids? what do colours mean to them? how do they compensate for the loss of visual sense? what do they want? I was pretty sure about the depth and brilliance of their imagination. Equally, i was convinced i would bring it out beautifully in the story. I would have, had technicalities not gotten in the way.
Every time I would try to talk to these kids, reach out to them and make a connection, the cameraperson would make a rude intrusion. "Madam mike hill rah hai" "Frame theek nahin hai," "sound theek nahin hai." To make it worse, he would do it right when the kid in question began to warm up. The hapless kids got much too unnerved to come up with a decent byte and i was too furious to think straight. One poor girl simply clammed up….mum, she stood like a statue. I had to put the mike away and soothe her back to normalcy.
Well, the end result is, i have to shoot tis again. But frame or no frame, this time, i am not letting camera issues get in the way of a worthwhile story. TV can actually rob a human interest story of humanity. Hv to learn to work around it, will do so.
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