As usual I check out my equipment the night before. I always do a trial run with lights and sound before a paying job. It all works . I pack it up.
1: Chromakey green screen.
2: Lighting case which includes the rifle mike and a fold up stool and a reflector.
3 & 4: Two cameras (protection if one dies on me - yes, it has happened more than once - spilled water stops a camera dead) - in fact today I took my Flip Ultra HD camera - so that makes three.
5: Tripod.
That's five items.
There are fluorescents on the ceiling left and they add some light gold backlight. We set up in five minutes flat. Not a single light used - except the hospitals fluoros.
It doesn't matter as that was the last shot.
I knew something was missing. The mike XLR lead? Power extensions? Make-up? Spare lamps?
In the middle of the night it comes to me. No tape. I have no tape!
First thing today I drive to Costco in Novato and buy 20 Sony miniDV tapes. Get home. Pack the car and drive to San Francisco. We collect John and I drive to UCSF hospital not far a way. John & Tricia take the equipment in while I park (which I could write a blog about). Anyhow, once parked, I get to the third floor just as Tricia is setting up the back light.
The area the hospital has given us is an end of corridor lit with masses of daylight. "Don't bother with lights, we'll use the natural daylight."
Tricia suggests using a reflector and finds an IV stand to hang it from. Magic! I take a movie and stills with my Flip camera.
There are fluorescents on the ceiling left and they add some light gold backlight. We set up in five minutes flat. Not a single light used - except the hospitals fluoros.
After the formal sit down interview - I wire the doctor up 2-59 style and walk around the hospital shooting until we are over whelmed by hospital security guards. "You can't film here!"
It doesn't matter as that was the last shot. 
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