Little Sprouts - 4 hours filming + 5 hours editing = 9 hours
Little Sprouts is an award winning Community Interest Company dedicated to improving the health and well being of the community. Via their mobile kitchen, their cooking and food education projects are designed to inspire everyone to make better food choices through practical, innovative and fun cooking workshops aimed at all ages and abilities. Debbie Fixter asked us to create a promotional video for her business' project, the video was to bid for more investment.
Filming took place on the 22nd of September, 10am - 2pm at a building across the street from the hostel on Hartington Road.
We were in two groups; one filming interviews and one filming the residents of the hostel cooking. I was part of the crew filming the cooking, I filmed with the camera and also helped with equipment etc.
For Health and safety, we identified where the fire extinguisher was since cooking was taking place and that would be the immediate concern. We also had to make sure we didn't cause a disruption or block any walkways or fire exits.
As we had such a short time to film AND edit the Little Sprouts footage I took the project home to edit on Premiere Pro on my own computer. This didn't go to plan and due to Premiere Pro crashing it took me hours to finally finish the project and send it to Debbie the following day.
Induction Show - 3 hours
The induction show featured all 3 performing courses and we were asked to record it so that performers could use the footage to to learn from their performance and also as evidence for show reels and memories.
Filming took place on 18th October, 6pm - 9pm at SRC theatre.
We set up the 2 cameras - one from the back and one from the side, the back angle shows the whole performance space where as the side angle cuts off a bit due to the available space. There were 2 camera operators per camera, myself and Jess manned the back angle camera. It was very close to a door that was being used therefore we had to make sure we were not in the way and obstructing it.
River Tees Rediscovered - (ongoing) 24 hours
To create a promotional video for the organisation River Tees Rediscovered to raise awareness, increase interaction, encourage visitors to take part in activities and to be featured on their website to showcase the range of projects. Health and safety will depend on each filming project. Our contact for this project is Jenny until the end of October then Christine. Contact via email and phone.
28th September 2016
1pm - 4pm, at college 3 hours
We were given the brief to create a promotional video for River Tees Rediscovered to raise awareness and create more engagement with visitors, we scheduled a meeting with our contact to go over exactly what she wants. We started planning and coming up with possible groups for filming the projects and how we want each project to look on film.
5th October 2016
1pm - 4pm, at college 3 hours
We continued planning by researching the projects and locations we would be filming, we tried to figure out the best ways to get to the locations and the best way to get footage, especially exterior footage where it wouldn't look the prettiest.
12th October 2016
1pm - 4pm, at college 3 hours
After a meeting the week before with Jenny, we managed to focus more on what we will film for the promotional video, we looked at the different projects with people contacting the people involved to try and find a possible time or event to film. As Project Manager I made sure everyone was assigned a job. I contacted Jenny to find out if there was any available stock footage we could use in the video and began looking online for an events we could attend to film. We found it hard to start any shot lists or storyboards as we had no upcoming events that we had enough information about that we could visualise. We did make a calendar/schedule for the upcoming weeks to write events on so that everyone has access to see and participate in a filming event.
19th October 2016
1pm - 4pm, at college 3 hours
It was decided that Adam, Rhys and myself would go and film at the Bat Box Building Event on the 25th so we used this time to prepare for that. Adam and myself created a storyboard but we agreed the filming will be reactive as we'll have to see when we are there as to what will be relevant to film. We printed off release forms and location forms. I contacted Jenny for some risk assessments templates, so we familiarised ourselves with that. Again, I contacted more people about attending their events to film and made sure everyone in the class was keeping on top of their work.
25th October 2016
8am - 11am, at "Bat Box Building" 3 hours
Today we were filming at Preston Hall Museum. However, upon an early arrival quickly realised we had the wrong date and the event was taking place the next day. However we didn't let this phase us and continued to film exterior shots of the museum, as well as shots of the park itself, focusing around the river. Myself and Adam went between filming with the camera and directing, both of us suggesting the next shot and filling in appropriate paperwork. We kept health and safety in mind, not going too far to the water or up/down steep paths or hills with the equipment.
Post Production at college, with Mark Johnson:
2nd November, 1pm - 4pm 3 hours
I went through all the footage, labelling and sorting it into appropriate bins. I then spent time listening to different songs to use as the background, once I had picked the song I could edit to the beat, making it easier. I set up the premiere pro document and imported the footage.
9th November, 1pm - 4pm 3 hours
I started editing the video, finding the best clips to use at each point of the song and in the best sequence. I almost finished the video, with only a small section left.
16th November, 1pm - 4pm 3 hours
I finished editing the video and exported it, to share with the rest of the class and add to the main video we will give to the client.
