Ever been filmed for 72h non-stop?

Tucker arrived back in Tangbaya with George, a Sierra Leonean
professional camera-man who works for the TV here in Freetown and has
shot for international productions multiple times, including one with
a female producer who brought along actor Michael Douglas. George is
very nice and well educated. He grew up in a Krio family and started
filming at 16. He's taken a few workshops to improve his technique,
most if not all delivered by international people , here in Sierra
Leone and in Uganda (he traveled far for that one!), but beyond that
training, he has a gift for filming! Tucker hired him to make up for
Bart's absence (he couldn't travel from the US because he broke 2
ribs), with the purpose to video document the Mani culture (and
language) and to video document the process of language documentation.

Some of the aspects George has made sure to film in order to document
the Mani culture are everyday activities, natural conversation in
Mani, specific traditional activities such as making palm oil,
producing salt ("salt-cooking") or drying fish. Everyday activities
ranged from pounding rice or peppers and cooking to carrying water or
other goods on someone's head, to
manually demolishing a traditional house to rebuild it with sand-made
bricks, to climbing up a palm tree to cut down bunches of palm nuts.
Natural speech by Mani speakers included conversation among
themselves or speaking to the camera. George also filmed me talking
with Mani speakers.

Yes, I really meant the title of this blogpost. I've been filmed for
72h almost non-stop because the second side of this short video
documentation project is to document the language documentation
itself, so I'm one of the main character on that end. My Mani name is
Mbom. George filmed Mbom here Mbom there. Mbom greeting villagers,
Mbom laughing with the women, Mbom teaching in school, Mbom
transcribing speech at the computer with a speaker, Mbom taking photos
of everything, Mbom and Tucker talking, Mbom serving food, Mbom
waiting around, Mbom crossing a river over a fallen tree trunk, Mbom
climbing into a boat, Mbom learning Mani as I walked along with our
host. It's actually not too bad :) You get used to it quickly and
learn to be sort of natural around it (lol), you learn to avoid
looking at the camera or away from it (lol+), and if you are me, you
make sure to wash your face a ton of times a day to make sure you
won't look sweaty in the film :)