More work with the Z1...

This lecture brings another chance to practice with the better cameras available... except this time we get to work with the audio equipment as well!
We decided to set up a small, very fake, interview. We asked Rachel to be the interviewer and Chloe to be the interviewee. They then came up with a short script about holidays.

The equipment we used is known as a 'boom mic'. Once we had set the levels and got the mic in a good position we were ready to film.
We got many different shots, the standard over the shoulder, close ups and wide angles. It was interesting working wit a sound man for the first time. It adds another variable to the mix. Something else for the camera man and the director to worry about. Like getting good quality sound requires the mic to be fairly close to the subject, but that limits what camera angles we can use.

This is what we produced:

I was happy with what we had produced. It is quite clearly an amateur production but the focus was on the audio, which i feel is fairly consistant throughout. I would have liked to have chosen a bigger space to film in as we had problems getting all the angles...especially as we were using the fairly large Sony Z1!

Day Project: Continuity Editing

This task follows on from our previous lecture about crossing the line. We given a very simple set of stage directions and asked to make a short video following someone running to something in a panic. The title was:

OH MY GOD!?

I was chosen to be the subject. I had to look concerned about something i had seen or heard on my phone and then run from camera right to camera left throughout every shot untill i got to my final destination.

Here is what we created:

Looking back at it there are a number of shots which I would have like to have done again. There is one in particular just after i have jumped over the rocks where the sun is almost completely blinding the camera. I think we should have changed that to be just a still shot looking in direction i was running, with a slight angle. That I aside the film flows fairly nicely and we didnt make any mistakes in terms of crossing the line.