Part XXXI: Workin' for the Weekend

Sorry Loverboy, I'm going to have to change those lyrics to Working on the Weekend. It's a beautiful Saturday in Tadoussac, and I'm working. Luckily, it's a day of entirely shooting so I've been outside all day. It's 6:16 PM right now, and I'm still not done my day. One interview today quickly multiplied into seven. Seven interviews!! The shortest of which is five minutes, the longest is 30. It's no two hour behemoth I did yesterday but it's still work.

My day started at 9 AM when I got into the office to recharge my desperately low batteries. I also unloaded everything I did yesterday and emptied out my camera for the day ahead. My first stop was at the Cap de Bon Desire (the Cape of Good Desire) to film an activity called 30 Pieds chez Neptune. What happens is that divers search around the area to collect organisms in the water and bring them up in buckets. The buckets are then transported over to big blue kiddie pools where visitors can learn about starfish, anemonies, crabs, mussels etc... Best part: you get to touch them.

After that activity I jetted down the road to the Centre de Decouverte Marin to interview one of the divers for the St-Laurent-en-Directe program before it began. We talked about the riches of the sea floor and how people think the St-Lawrence is one huge garbage can. After out interview was the program itself which I filmed again. Today the visibility was pretty bad so the divers had to get really close to the fauna and flora. It was really cool to get like massive zoom ins of sea anenomes and other creepy crawlies of the sea floor. Of course the spider crab freaked me out... stupid spiders.

After the show I got two streeter style interviews about the show. One was taken in the theatre and kind of has this really nice atmosphere. Then I interviewed two more divers in Explos Nature. These were 10 minute power interviews. Fast-talking, quick questions and short anwsers were the name of the game. Overall though they had really interesting stories and things to say.

So now I'm back home, taking a little break before my last interview of the day. I made the supreme mistake of sitting down on the couch. Now I really don't want to get back up. But alas, the work, she beckons, and I must answer her call. AWAY!