I got a gig from my old college tutor to be the sound operator for a council funded project involving Issac Newton (I'm not entirely sure what it is or when it is being put up but I'll find out). Anyway so I got the message and my tutor said we'd be working with Sophie Aldred (for those who may not know she played Ace in classic Who) and I started dancing around my kitchen because Doctor Who is one of my favourite if not my favourite show franchises and Ace is such an incredible character! So working with Sophie was like a dream come true lol (also because I'm trying to work my way up the industry ladder so this is like a great step towards that lol).
So shooting day comes and we are setting up and I'd just finished setting up the boom mic when my tutor asks if I'd like to pick Sophie up from the train station and so of course I said yes and so I was walking over (decided to play the Doctor Who theme in my headphones because I was kinda nervous lol so it helped me but also I wanted to feel like I'm The…