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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1996 THE GEORGETOWN GEMINI The Gem watches the watchers as CFTO hits town BY TIMOTHY VON BOETTICHER The Georgetown Gemini In what is fast becoming a familiar scene, downtown Georgetown was again the focus of national media at- tention as a television crew rolled into town to turn an eye on our citizens. CFTO's Dave Humiski of the television show Eye On Toronto rolled into town Aug. 9, video camera in hand, to preview Georgetown's first annual "Arts in the Afternoon", which take place until Aug. 23-24 on Main St. Humiski produced the pre- view with the participation of artists from Revision Un- limited, the Credit Valley Artisans, and the Pallette and Pencil Club, gathering video footage to create a promo- tional television spot to be aired sometime this week on Eye On Toronto. The staged event, attended by local passersby, will be edited to look like the real thing. In keeping with the spirit of the process, Humiski agreed to be the focus of a story about.himself in the process of covering a story. "People say 'I never see you on TV. Well, I'm the guy that puts everyone else on TV'." As he approaches a table setup by the Forge Gallery of Terra Cotta, the exhibitor says, "No way. We're not ready". Humiski moves on to the next table. Participants want to take the time to make things look perfect and Humiski is willing to accomodate them. After shooting thenext dis- play table, Humiski turns abruptly and nearly hits a cer- tain photographer that is tak- ing his picture. "A videographer is blind in a semi-circle around one side," he offers in apology. Humiski draws a great deal of attention from those who have gathered to watch him create the news but does not show an attitude. He readily complies when asked by lo- cal shopkeepers Nathalie Ramackers and Doreen Bergsma for a look through the camera: "We want to see what it looks like". "Sure", he says. Humiski then sets up to tape artist Dawn Schertzl of Revision Unlimited who is working on a painting. He describes the process while offering light-handed direc- tion to Schertz] and son LJ. "I will tilt up the camera from the finished product to the artist." Humiski muses as he works offering snippets of wisdom gleaned through his years in the television indus- "T read this thing once about a Super Photographer who was asked about the key to his success. "Whenever I saw someone doing some- thing neat -- I asked them to do it again'." Humiski then asks artists Laura Kinsbury and George Murray to turn their works so that he can get a second shot. For the next sequence, Humiski asks people to walk into the shot aimed at the Main Mart to fill in the story. Residents assemble them- selves and awaitthe cue. The proceedings resemble pro- duction of a motion picture on a more diminuative level with Humiski as the writer, director, and cameraman. This would not be the first time within this last year that downtown Georgetown has been used as the setting for the creation of a cinematic experience: portions of TV show "Kung Fu" were filmed here last fall. Humiski deftly exchanges a dead battery for one that is charged, explaining that a cameraman rarely runs out of batteries: "There is a comraderie amoung camera- men." The the GO bus pulls into the staged shot and a young man walks in front of the camera asking "Is that on?". "Only when you're in the shot", Humiski jokes. Mo- ments later, he gives an aside: "That girl in the black zip top is good. She just slips into the picture. She is innocuous while other people give them- selves away." As a break in the action, Humiski agrees to a brief question and answer period. Greg Scott, 10, asked "Do youtravelall over the world?" Police nab break and enter suspect Halton Regional Police have laid charges in connection with a break and enter of a home on Fourth Line, Geor- getown. A 22-year-old Acton man was charged -with several counts including break and enter, and theft and posses- sion over $5,000 in connec- tion with the incident. Police allege the suspect had bro- ken in to the residence some- time between Aug. 2-6 and $60,000 including acompact disk player, television, akey- board, and a dynamic system analyzer. The suspect is set to appear in court in Milton, Sept, 16. "Good question", chuckles Humiski. "Some do. For the last few years I' ve been work- ing on a show called 'Eye on Toronto'." "Do you do candid shots?", asks Cory Hageman, 12. "T have a trick for doing candid shots," says Humiski, "Little red lights indicate when a camera is rolling, but mine has an on-off switch. I leave the little red light offso that I could take your picture now. I could walk away and it would still take your pic- ture." "Where do you learn to becomeacamera operator?", asks Phaidra Wall, 8. "Well. When I was still in school in Winnipeg, I took 'Theatre and Broadcasting and then I went to Plains College", answers Humiski. "How do you advance?" asks Phaidra's mother who seems as curious as her child. "Right place. Right time. Never lie about what you can do. The one thing you can't do is the thing you' ll have to do first", says Humiski. John Daly, 66, an artist with the Pallette and Pencil Club, pipes in: "True of life, isn't it?" Humiski continues, "When I first came to To- ronto, | was asked 'Can you do this, can you do that?' and I said 'No. No. No. I only do field production. It's impor- tant not to fool anyone'." The question period fin- ishes and Humiski moves to a table where Redka Loserts is sculpting ocarinas, small spherical flutes, in fresh clay. Humiski casually picks one from the table and moves it to a position advantageous to the shot he needs. His casual manner and easy humour seem to comfortthose around him, especially those in front of the camera. "Part of my job," he says. "Often when I arrive on the scene, I am the entire CFTO organization. So I don't represent myself indi- vidually but the whole (of) CFTO and | always pass on messages. If anyone has any- thing to say to Dave Duvall, I'll deliver it." Nearing the end of the in- terview, Humiski describes his most unfortunate assign- ment: "What pops into mind is when I blew up my cam- era. I was doing a story on the Maid of the Mist in Niagara Falls and our cameras are designed to sustain a mini- mum amount of moisture such as rainfall. And when on the boat, in an environ- ment of complete mist, the moisture got to the internal electronics and blew out three different areas of the camera. Ibrought the camera in to the technicians and it also blew out their source. As they say, 'I blew it up real good'." You can watch a preview of the event this week and , quite possibly, see yourself on Eye on Toronto in the What's On segment of the program. EASY THERE! 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