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First session of BYOB (Be your own boss) was held on Friday the 25th. Actually went surprisingly well in terms of the day. We were none intrusive, nobody seemed to mind signing the release forms and the guest speaker was very complimentary. Added bonus of one chap asking for our business card as he was interested in getting some filming done. Must have been due to the fact that this was one of my none scruffy days! But I digress. No hitches on the day other than losing the clip for the tie mic. Easily solved by running the mic through a button hole (selotape was the back up plan!)

The hitch

Okay everything was great on the day but it would not be a pilot without a problem. Of course it was technical and of course it was the person setting up the software who caused the ‘issue’ i.e. yours trully. Word to the wise when you buy a dedicated server with 1tb of storage do not use a partition with only 2gb capacity. Especially when you need 3gb for the first capture. Secondly don’t do things late at night when you are likely to delete random things, in a random manner and then randomly forget that you have done so. Basically lost the content that had been uploaded to the server but luckily had a backup on the handycam! Bit more manual work to be done by me though in this case lesson learnt!