I had the great opportunity to be invited to a photo/film shoot for Tourism Queensland the other day and with great opportunity, comes great responsibility... I had to wake up at like 4:30am!
My day started at 4:30am... getting ready and hopping on the train, I was surprised to see so many people on the train at this hour (They must have great opportunities too). Time didn't exactly fly by it dragged by instead because every second that went by I wish I was spending it in bed and not freezing my buttocks off in the cold winter's air.
Roma Station is my station, so I got off the train and headed towards Tourism Queensland's office... There I was greeted by Steve, who was very up and awake compared to me. We waited a bit and more people came, when we got a full car, the first bunch headed off towards Lone Pine :)
This is where the day started and where the pessimistic me stopped...
Destination arrived! We got out the car and was greeted by great smell of the 'outback', the smell reminds me of when I was back in South Africa. It was so peaceful, only the voice of soprano birds could create such harmony at 7am in the morning.
After walking around, to get a sense of the place, I started hearing my stomach starting to make some funny noises, at first I thought it was trying to harmonise with the birds... Turns out, that is the result of not having breakfast and smelling toasted sandwiches in the distance. Without fear, we trusted our senses and followed the smell... It lead us to a cafe, warm, cosy and it served hot coffee and tea.
The toasted sandwiches then came out... and I was eating away like a child getting its first taste of candy. Whilst in the trance of eating everything like it was being sucked into a black hole, I was oblivious to the rest of the people that arrived. The camera crew, the other talents here for the shoot and some high school students who decided to skip school and come for a photo shoot (For those about to "skip school and come for a photo shoot", I salute you....~).
As everyone has arrived, we were all getting ready to head off to our shoot!
So for the rest of the day, we took turns in being the hero/villain or being minions (extras in the background).
The shoot took a whole day ending at 4:30pm at South Bank at the museum.
I will keep this blog short as I'm sure you don't want to hear me brag about how I fitted into the Asian stereotype (Being all tourist like and holding cameras, not just any camera but a SLR camera) in the photo shoot.
Y^_^
Here are some of the photos, so if you see a Tourism Queensland advert with me in it... Here are the photos to the "Behind the scenes"!
This is Steve! :)
