(Very) Post Production Assistant

I was invited to P.A. for this very huge PO5 event. For those of you who do not know what PO5 is, it's the Party Pilipinas counterpart of TV5. I was requested to bcome the tech production assistant. Since I've mastered the craft already, I easily said yes.

Come the following day:

Wado, eto mga service mo...

Wado, here's 45,000, your budget for food, payment for your jobbers....

Wado, here's your list of suppliers...

Wado, liquidate these expenses...

Wado, pay your jobbers and talents na...

Wado, call this, call her, call him...

Wado, where are the scripts?...

Wado, make an idiot board. "But it's 3am?". T.T "K"

Wado, call the caterer. Here's their number...

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Of the many things listed above, only one counts as tech PA, and that is to call the suppliers and pullout the equipments from the station.

Working with a very whole new team is something different and exciting all the same. You adjust with very difficult people in a very fast pace. Unlike my other shows in TV5, I work with a group which I'd like to call my family now. Working at PO5 made me realize that.

Thanks to the people who made work easier for me, Ms. Chu, EP Omar, Mr. Fu, Kuya Jorge, Ms. Yvette and the friendly crew.

Now, I know what I am capable of doing. kaya ko na humawak ng show. AHAHAHAHA! Feelingero. Pero kung budget lang ang iintindihin, at yun lang alone, madali lang. Problema lang kasi sa isang show, pag PA ka, kahit trabaho ng iba, sayo ipapagawa. Well, we always have to start somewhere. But it makes me really sad whenever I teleprompt. It's not a real job, and I know I'm better than that.

Hindi ko tuloy alam kung ano ba ang goal ko sa TV production. Sa pace ko kasi ngayon, ang pagiging producer ang ultimate dream. And I don't want that. Looking at my work, i couldn't help but ask myself, "Direk, are you on the right path?"

My dad scolded me the other day for working three straight days with very two-hour sleeps. Like my mom, he hated my work. I don't technically love my work, but I'm not hating it the way they do. Hence, I couldn't defend my work yet. I don't have good enough reasons to fight for it.




Salamat sa PO5 experience, I'm on a whole new level at work.