Professional Practice- Test Shoot @ Friday People Office and Behind the Scenes of our setup

This video is a test shot we filmed at the Friday People office. In this video, Charlie Ansell was a stand-in who we used in order to adjust the camera's white balance and ensure that he was sat in an optimal position for us to film Nick when he was ready.

 This was an incredibly useful thing to do, as it allowed us to save Nick's time when it came to testing out where he should sit for his interview. It saves a lot of time if head-room and lighting have been taken into consideration before we begin filming.

Here are also some photographs that were taken that show our set-up, the equipment we used, and how we recorded the interview.

The H4N ZOOM that was used to capture sound.

Myself Interviewing Nick Ward

Showing the setup of the interviewer and interviewee

The questions and note sheet I used to interview Nick

Something I discovered while I interviewed Nick was that it was very useful to sometimes sway away from the listed questions that were on the paper. This allowed me to engage in a big discussion with Nick about his various ideas and projects. This allowed him to fully explain his intentions with his project ideas, and in turn allowed us to collect a lot of material to work with when it comes to creating our commission videos.

A problem we encountered during this shoot was down to the shirt Nick was wearing at the time of our arrival. He was wearing a very stripy shirt- and these kinds of shirts are notorious for being very distracting through a camera lens due to their affect on them. Therefore, we asked Nick to change his shirt to something plainer.
Although this wasn't exactly something we could have foresaw, it was a problem that was able to be rectified none the less.