List of Equipment

While we were filming our list of equipment was:

• Camera
• Batteries 
• Tri-pod
• Ear/Head phones
• Sound mic (shot gun mic)
• Sound cables 
• Scripts

In future to prevent the disruptions in the filming we may try using tie-mics instead of a shot gun mic and tell people to be quite during filming. If people are on the way to where we are filming we might put up some signs and jack and I should try a few practice runs of the script.

Analysing Our Footage

Outdoor
The were quite a few a problems with filming because there were a few people talking behind us which was picked up by the microphone, the other problems like the sun was causing a glare on the camera lens which was hard to try and remove, there was also problems with a slight bit of wind in the air which was picked up on mic, jack and I didn't really know their scripts very well  and the last problem was cars that drove past which you can hardly change because its out of our hands.

Indoor Noisy
The were a lot of problems with filming indoors like there was a couple of people throwing a bottle in front the camera while talking to each other, the sound recording of jack and myself reading the script sounded echoey, there was shouting in the background, walking passed the shot in front of the camera, we also had people deliberately interfering with the mic by talking into it, we had whistling as well as music in the back ground being played.

Indoor Quite
There was practically nothing wrong with it accept the noise from chairs, fizzy drink bottles and the very quite pen taping. although again the camera and mic was still to far away from jack and I so our voices still echoed on the sound track.

Filming Day

Today we filmed a scripted fictional news piece in three different places as we need at lest one noisy location and two quite locations.

We did this in group my group was with Aden and Jack. Aden was on camera and sound and Jack and I were both reading the script.  

We filmed in 877 twice first was meant to be quite and second was noisy and we also filmed outside by the car park and college air craft.

Preparing to shoot on location

1. Why do you think it’s important to make a plan before you go to shot film or audio on location?

It is always important to plan before filming or recording mainly because if you want good quality or the best quality for your video then you need to be prepared.

When you are planning the things you want done before you film or record it’s best to try and cover things like how accessible is the location?

Why? Because incase if you need to return to the location to reshot or re-record something you know what the possibilities are and how easy it is for the cast and crew to get there.

The next thing that would also be really good to do if possible is to make a short trip down there with a camera (just a good handy cam at lest) and a mic (whatever mic you have chosen to use) and preview the location with the equipment if you wish take different microphones down and test them to see which one suites best.

Not only by previewing the location would you find out how well your equipment will work at the location it also gives you a chance to get used with the location you can risk asses it and document where you would need to cameras to roughly be when your filming you could also preview the point you mark with the equipment to not only give an idea of what it might be like but also to use as evidence to show how accessible it is to get to the points.

It is also good to plan to film more then once one the same scene to make sure you have back up footage as well as maybe considering how long you will be at the location because not only do you need to plan you footage and sound you need to look after you’re cast and crew (don’t want a shaky camera guy/girl)

It is also good to have a back up location just incase the first location you choose in accessible

2. What might happen if you do not plan?

You will be very unprepared for example if you where to find some problems with either you sound or footage and found out you can not return to the location for some unknown reason then you will be left with not only bad quality footage or sound you are left with a choice to either change the idea last minute, drop the footage and use something else or use it and hope no one notices.

Also if you didn’t plan to film or record more then once then it could also be a problem because you might have had a chance of catching something useable and if you didn’t plan a back up location then this may also be problematic if you can not return to your old location but need to re-film. 

an example of this that I have found is of a group of weather report that have gone wrong both inside and outside of the studios 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7H7mHShcp8