Film making

When Peter told us we were going to be photographed by somebody, Katherine and me didn't realize what it exactly means, what the scale would be, and what it would exactly look like; and today, they finally gave us the answer. By the way, I'm not doing too many lab works this week as I'm focusing on my full research plan which should be submitted by the end of this month. What I'm doing for my lab work is no more than checking the purity and vitality of my Campys – a kind of routine task, and shouldn't take too much time to finish it. Anyway, those people are supposed to arrive at 3:00pm, but actually they didn't show up until 3:30pm. When they came into our Honey Research Unit, I was stunned by the scale – there are roughly 6-7 camera workers, technicians and assistants (?) and come along with several huge bags with their cameras and RAILS in them. As soon as they came in, some of them started to set the rail on the floor and others turned off the light or talked to Peter WHAT we were going to do and WHERE we should be located at – a typical film making. One of them wanted to lit my Bunsen burner but never succeed. After litting it up for him, he asked me if I can get more orange part of the flame and get it closer to me and Peter – he must have mistaken Bunsen burner is not for LIGHTING... They also wanted Katherine to sit at biosafety cabinet, me at bench top and Peter to stand beside us, and to pretend that we.were working while the camera was moving around us. Hey, Sir! Don't you know the Bunsen burner is very hot? But before that... How would you take responsibility of my Campys for staying in air for such a long time!! Finally the film making finished, but it's not all – we are asked to stay for “a few minutes” to take still pictures. Actually I felt this took us longer time than the film making did. The photographer tried several times to tune the angle and light of the scene, and asked us to move some stuff (Bunsen burner closer, oxygen generator and microscope away...), face my agar place toward the photographer, and even wanted Peter to lower down his body...!! As with Katherine, she had to hold 8-ch pipette with left hand and pretend working on serial dilution.-.-;; Finally (yeah, this time it's real final) the work finished. We all were showed how the still pictures look like. Hm...it's not too bad but how come the main point – the persons – are not in the center in those pictures?? Anyway, after all of them left away, I got my Campys into “CampyHouse” (candle jar) as soon as possible, incubate them and went home. They are really killing my Campys, really. I actually have a feeling that my Campys had been dead... Peter said they'd send us the film we took today within DVD. Who knows...