In a little aside, I thought I’d mention that I will do anything on a film set.

That’s as dodgy as it sounds.

Camera, audio, spotting, prep, production assisting, lighting, I’ll do any of it. On location.

There is one little job that I despise. Really, I hate it, and I don’t really know why. It’s only valid in one setting, and hopefully it’s a setting I can largely avoid once I’m like… forty. And mildly successful. If I become mildly successful. If I reach forty. Anyway, I hate being camera operator in a studio.

I just… hate it. Especially on variety shows where you just repeat the same shots every week, episode after episode. You end up standing there for two hours, hands on the fucking camera, only getting to watch the action from one angle and not being able to hear it over the director yelling at you. I hate it. At RMITV, I’ve taken the boom pole job – which is essentially holding the boom at the ready so that if the audio drops out on live TV you can just swoop in as back up – over camera operating. I seriously don’t like it.

Why do I have to keep doing it?