Prop - Filming

Today was a bit of a bumpy ride. It took a while to get out of the seminar to film and set up. I was hoping to get everything done on the morning and in a few hours (which I did) as I had thorough plans and shot lists. I asked Jamie to film the behind the scenes stuff which were very important to the video, and Beth to model for a few of the shots. I'm greatful they gave up a few hours to help me out. It ran quite smoothly on a whole (apart from a bulb on a red head going off as soon as I wanted to film the three point lighting set up). 

Picture by Jamie

The only major issue I had was the shadows on the bunny didn't quite work, so the voice over seems a bit weird and overreacting to a bunny. My survey results also suffered for it as it doesn't generate the emotion I wanted. I will still include it in my final video, I just need to say it didn't work because I did voice over first, and what I have just mentioned above. A bit of an inconvenience. I've just had to put all the footage of the bunny that looks vaguely scary at that point instead.

Voice Over - Filming

Today was the narrator shoot for my Minor instructional video. I got the equipment out, set up and tested on the morning (first time I have used the Zoom!) and got the actor in on the afternoon. The Zoom was fairly easy to get the hang of and straight forward, but all my clips went into like 20 different folders which was a bit of a pain. I also had to move rooma halfway through as I could hear people in the edit suite/base room being very loud even though I said to stop (people were also editing sound in there, so I dread to think how they were managing). I ended up moving into the Gallery (there were still some heavy footed people outside for a few takes and an annoying hum, but it was much better). 

My original set up in the client suite. The gallery set up was very similar.

Ideally, I would have liked to film the visuals first, then the narration, but due to equipment and actor availability (and deadlines fast approaching) I had to do it the other way around, which lead to some problems, including lines being cut and visuals not working. I will talk about this more in my concluding post and evaluation.