Wednesday 2 April 2014
On Monday 31st of march, we had a Director of photography workshop with Peter Lloyd-Williams whom is an award winning cameraman of itv with over 20 years experience filming news, documentaries and features, sport and commercials in just about every conceivable location and with a wide range of people.
His professional contacts within the television industry are extensive.
Our areas of experience/expertise:
- Documentary/feature work
- Multi camera live work
- Drama
- Aerial filming (helicopters / light aircraft / fast jets / balloons / microlights etc.)
- Ski filming
- Yachting/boat filming
During the workshop, i worked with with Aimee Saunders, Andy Cox and Sam Creamer.
Some of the activities we done throughout the workshop was, prepare a camera & lighting setup for an interview within a restricted time-limit, emulating a real life scenario.
We had 30 minutes to shoot and edit a quick interview, which was improvised, and we had to use a selection of coverage shots that we had been taught within the workshop
A good tip that Peter told us, was to always have a piece of blue-tac on us when we're filming, incase if someone has a picture that we need to take a still shot of, and haven't got nowhere to put it, we can place in on the wall and get a steady shot of the picture.
