Tale of the broken camera
Ah. I was helping a friends group to edit their GCSE Media production, as being the slackers they are (no hard feelings if you're reading this, people!)they had next to no time left.(Ironically, the hard drive crashed, losing this production, and they had to make it again...) Four teenage boys in a cramped room, with our young IT support man.

He proceeded to show us the new Sony cameras that had just arrived at the school. Cool, they were quality things and made noises like aeroplane lights (Fasten Seat belt, head between legs.. those lights).

So, the It person wandered off trusting us for a few minutes. One of us (not me, I swear), proceeded to toy with the camera. He opened the slot for the DV tape, and it got stuck and the camera died. To my knowledge the weeny bit of factory-charge on the battery had just run out.

Well, the IT support person came back in and found as with the camera, and wandered out again. We all sat round the Media computer, and watched one of the group edit their production so far on Pinnacle. He was previewing it, playing the song 'The Film - Can you trust me'; know, music from that Peugeot ad.

Well, the headteacher came in and started giving us the what for, ("New cameras, not supposed to use them until they've been prepared. You're the oldest students in the school, I should be able to trust you.." Quite rightly so!) whilst this poxy embarressing music was playing. He said 'Can I really trust you anymore?", and the music in the background echoed 'Can you trust me?! Ah ah ah ah..'. God, that was one of the longest moments in my life. I wished my friend stopped that bloody music playing because for all I knew the teacher could have just exploded with the irony.

Bah.
(Randall4k, Thu 16 Jun 2005, 11:05, Reply)