Into the dark...

I moved in to Sal's corner yesterday, since she finished shooting her clay animation and continuing with her hand-drawn animation. It's a perfect corner in our lecture studio, covered entirely with black cloth, very secluded, quiet and comfortable ^^, not too mention it is pretty close to pitch black, feels like camping, my only neighbour is Simon who is doing a cut-out animation, who is also my camera and lighting consultant...(grin).
At last, i am working with full set lighting and camera (before i am only using one light and a betacam for quick testing). I got 4 lights, which I thought was too many, since i don't know how to do lighting and just working with one is confusing enough, and a DV camera, which i don't really know how to operate. So basically today i pretty much still adjusting myself with all these equipment, reading manuals, switching cables, and experimenting with lights. By the end of the day, i figured out that i sucks at lighting, the colours and shadows all wrong and the light flickers all the time, so sometime i got a blue or yellow shot ... gotta really ask the expert tomorrow, so frustrating when you don't know what you're doin, especially when you're suppose to start shooting and you are stuck on reading manuals and "how to" book.