Working in my group of three with Isabelle and Nicole was a good taste of being in a mini film crew. Although we had no assigned jobs at the beginning, soon we fell into the roles we preferred while passing around the handy cam. We felt like we were on the Amazing Race on the hunt for good locations with only 40 minutes left. After a quick chat we all agreed that the best place to capture the “uni life” would be around RMIT connect where hoards of students huddle around powerpoints and feed off the wifi. On the way we were suprised unexpected filming opportunities such as a herd of students all heading for one building with almost identical backpacks.
The RMIT connect team we nice enough to let us use a spare room to avoid excess white noise for the interviews. But we later discovered that a rogue lecture mic had been left on and was ringing in the background, this became a real problem since the room was very large and echoed every sound. By the time we realised this it was too late to start over. I will have to figure out how to “fix it in post.” Next time I will be sure to do a sound test in the room before we shoot.
Being interviewed was a interesting since we were all thinking of questions for ourselves and we soon found a good pattern in staging questions for the best answers.
Sharing the files among the group has been difficult as I have a mac Air that basically holds one floppy disk worth of data. For some reason we had shot in a strange format so uploading to the computer was a challenge but we eventually got it.
Things I would do differently next time:
- Have more coverage: I’d like to get more shots of the interviewer’s reactions and some hand gestures.
- Have a proper discussion about the the main point of the interview so that we already know what we want to say.