Today resident ukelele-slinger Georgia Fields graced us with her presence, ready to strum out some delightful tunes and bust some moves for us to film. Having not been involved a great deal behind the camera in a live scenario, I put my hand up to be in charge of one of the cameras and fumble my way through the process.

And fumble I did – despite the preparation leading up to Georgia’s performance and Rohan’s insistence that we check every last trivial thing to make sure nothing would go wrong in the shoot, I discovered during the first song that an SD card was absent from my camera. Luke, who stood as one of my assistants, attempted to subtly make his way over to the camera case to retrieve one only to trip over and cause audible racket. So as you can see live camerawork is my calling and it’d be a crime for me not to pursue it.

We skipped filming the first song but managed to pull ourselves together for the rest of them. Once I had the hang of it I was able to get some decent shots of Georgia’s guitar work and was able to pull off some pretty edgy slow focus pulls. Being fixed in one position is good as it allows you to focus purely on the angle you have and make the most out of it.

So I guess with at least a little more preparation and attention I could probably manage live camerawork, it definitely makes for a unique experience. I found myself coming up with interesting shots in my head and awkwardly trying to replicate them on the fly, but when I did manage to it was particularly rewarding.