Thursday 24 April 2014
Todays shoot mainly consisted of me filming Jake in the drawing board room, where he'd finished a written assignment he was working on for two-three weeks (Hooray!) And also Mirella working in the drawing board room, with Steve visiting occasionally, plus an interview with Mirella.
I managed to get some sequence shots because it was more of a relaxed environment today.
The equipment that i used, which i also used yesterday was a canon 7D with a zoom lens 17-85mm and i used my Canon 60D with a prime lens 50mm, and throughout the shoot i would use both of these cameras providing multiple coverage to a scene that i was filming.
A problem that i found working in the drawing board room which i didn't notice whilst filming was, because of the tube lighting used in the room, and how it was placed throughout the room, the white balance would change whenever i moved the camera around, also, with the primary source of light coming from the window; this too would add to the unevenness with the lighting in the room, hence, depending on where i positioned the camera would determine the colour tone of the scene filmed.
Because i didn't have enough time to set up lights i was not able to balance out the lighting in the room, however, if i were to do this scene again, i would ask if i could maybe turn off the lights and only rely upon the lights coming through the window, because when i originally filmed in the drawing board room when i was doing research, the footage did not change it's colour tone/white balance.
I also filmed the apprentices playing cards as well, providing multiple coverage for the scene, using the wide angle zoom lens for primary coverage, and getting close-ups with the 50mm prime lens, whilst making sure that i didn't cross the line. However, i filmed two separate versions, one version one side of the line, and the next the opposite side of the line, to then choose out of the two.
The interview with Mirella went exceptionally well! The warm up questions prepared her nicely to then answer the main questions, and she gave fantastic answers, to a point where i was imagining what footage could go with her responses during the interview!
During the interview i used the questions for guidance, to sort of navigate me towards where i needed to be heading, and sometimes, the answers given from Mirella would answer a few of the questions at the same time.
At the end of the interview i asked her for feedback as well, and recorded it, so that i know how i could improve on preparing for an interview in the future, where this was my first proper interview that i've ever done. The feedback i received from her was very useful, as it was her first time getting interviewed too, so she advised me on what questions worked well with her (ones she favoured) and which questions to possibly drop/amend, as they were too confusing, or weren't specific enough; those questions were:
What have you learnt so far? (too broad a question)
What's your favourite aspect of what you've learnt so far?
What are the challenge you face with continual work of keeping the Cathedral alive?
Because Mirella and Scott are only 2nd year students, they do work that they get set, at the moment they're not on that level, however Jake is as he's a 4th year student.
How do you feel that you've improved on this apprenticeship in comparison to when you first started?
(Always going to improve!) However, she did say that her opinion towards that answer was a biased one, and that maybe someone else would answer it more passionately.
The last question i asked her went down really well (is there anything that i have not asked you about etc...), as she had a lot to say, that she'd felt was left out.
Conclusion
I'm very pleased with the results that i've gotten, and the research that i'd done earlier during the week definitely helped me a lot! and i don't think i would of been as prepared if i was just to create some questions and not thoroughly research interviewing techniques properly.
