August 31st, 2015.

Last week we progressed very efficiently. We scheduled our promotional video shoot for Friday in the morning. I wrote up the shot list that would allow the shoot to run smoothly. I passed the shot list on to Mardy who was our Director of Photography for the day. We shot the video in the Building 10 stair well. At the beginning we had some issues with the amount of traffic coming through the lower levels. Once we shot this section of the script we were able to venture up the stairs where there weren’t as many people. The filming of the video took a couple of hours, but all in all, we ran through everything very quickly. There were no conflicts regarding the style of the video. Everyone had the same vision and therefore, it was easy to coordinate. We off loaded all of the footage and began editing. Matthew and Mardy were the main editors of the film. The rest of us watched and gave constructive criticism throughout. We all contributed to the editing process in some way. Everyone had arrived at 9am and it took five and half hours to film and edit nearly the entire video, with the exception of three shots. I filmed these shots during our tutorial after the TV seminar. The promotional video has now been fine tuned and is ready for exposure.

The other departments of the preparation are running very smoothly. We have all allocated ourselves into jobs for on the day, taking note of call times. We had two major meetings last week where we discussed these jobs in detail. From here, I will help Mia with cooking for the big day. I am also going to try to contact the RMIT webpage designers to see whether they would allow us to feature our promotional video on RMIT’s official site. This may be difficult, but it would provide us with a huge amount of exposure.

Until next week!

Cheers, Sarah.