Here’s the video:
For week 4’s exercise, everyone in our group agreed on using Zane’s script as it was hilarious. Nikki and Margot volunteered to be the actors, Adrian was the camera man, Rosie was the first AD, Ryan was the director and I was on sound.
Doing sound was probably the most exhausting thing I’ve ever tried as the boom mic was so heavy which made it hard to hold still and the recorder was also quite heavy to carry. Thankfully we did not do any long takes, otherwise my shoulders and arms would have been sore for days.
The shooting went really well and was super fun. Through the activity we got used to the calling routine which made everything so much easier and the shooting more efficient.
Ryan tried a couple of angles for editing, so I had to record the sound from different positions so the boom mic and I do not appear in the frame.
It’s my first time making a video according to a script and I learned lots about the rules on set and how to teamwork better using the calling routine.
Editing
In the first shot, the boom mic that I was holding appeared in the upper left of the frame since the second half, so I had to rescale the frame a couple of times to make sure it’s out. For the shot in which they sit down and talk, I chose the one that was shot from the front instead the one shot from the side as it shows a better composition between the two and shows the facial expressions more clearly.
The quality of the sound was genuinely horrible as the constructing noises were there the whole time, so to avoid that, a quieter location is to be sought next time or at least some place where you can yell ‘quiet on set’ and get a dead silence.
To avoid the appearing of the boom mic in the frame, we have to test the range in which the boom mic is able to move around and does not appear in the frame first before we go into shooting.