Today was my first day of filming and I assisted my friend Jess by being on camera while she presented her segment of the Ufilms Oscars rundown. I had to learn lines and act on camera for the segment and I think I did a good job.
I also prepared for my own episode of the rundown by printing off a list of all the Oscar nominees and looking at who had won awards at the Baftas and Golden Globes previously for there nominated roles. I also created a camera plan for the shoot during this time as well
I also took part in the shooting of Danniella and Matthews episode about Oscars fashion. During the production I acted as the director of this piece and was responsible for ensuring that all cameras were recording at the same time and cueing the presenters in to speak. I also gave feedback on the presenters performances and whether that I thought they were natural enough to be included in the final piece as well as giving basic instructions to the camera operators.
Thursday the 23rd of February.
We started today by reshooting Jess's episode of the Ufilms Oscars rundown. Unfortunately there had been an issue whilst retrieving the footage from the SD card and some footage had not been removed properly. With no way of getting this footage back we decided that it was safest to reshoot the entire episode again so that we definitely had everything that we need and to make the editing process as easy as possible.
After we had finished the reshoot myself and Matty began to film our first episode, that is about our Oscars predictions, the last one of the week. I set up the set and equipment whilst waiting for our crew to arrive with the help of Ben who was responsible for operating the boom pole. The shoot went very well and we collected all the footage that we needed (perhaps a little too much). We talked in detail about each subject area and ensured that we used all of our camera angles in order to make the piece multi camera. During the shoot myself and Matty relied heavily on the rest of the crew to much sure that things went smoothly. The camera operators were responsible for making sure that everything was framed correctly and that the sound was of a good, useable quality, the director was responsible for ensuring that myself and Mattys presenting was good enough and the boom operator was required to make sure that the boom was as close as possible without being in shot.
Overall the shoot went very well although we did send a little bit too long talking about each category and nomination. We thought that our presenting was extremely professional and natural meaning that our conversation followed smoothly. Next time we will definitely make sure that we are more precise with what we were talking about and get to the point of our discussion faster as I believe that we will have an issue when it comes to editing due to the amount of footage we had.
We began to edit our piece together spending a few hours retrieving, labeling and beginning to edit our footage together. We knew that we would not be able to finish our piece on that day and so we decided to come back on Friday to finish our edit.
Friday the 24th of February
We continued to edit our piece together but it became apparent very quickly that we had recorded too much footage and would not be able to edit everything together in time so we decided to cut certain categories out in order to create a piece on time. Unfortunately due to technical difficulties our piece was not uploaded on Saturday night as originally intended but instead on Sunday morning which was luckily not too much of a delay. Next time we will not give ourselves such an ambitious task and instead create something more realistic.
Monday the 27th of February
With the Oscars finally over me and Matty had to quickly prepare ourselves so that we could film and edit something that would be uploaded on the same day at 8pm. We started by collecting a list of all of the category winners, this acted as our script as we went through each category in reverse order of how they appeared on the list we prepared leaving the best film category until last. Learning from our previous mistakes we kept our chit chat brief and get through each category as quickly as possible. We managed to get through every topic in one take which is brilliant and get quickly into the editing process.
In the editing process we found some issues with our audio that had not been noticed by our film crew during filming. This created a few issues for us but we managed to fix them and fully edit and upload our video on time and scheduled for its 8pm slot.
Tuesday the 28th of February
Today we filmed Adam and Rhys episode of the rundown, I once again directed this episode completing all of the roles that I have previously described. The filming went very well and went smoothly and quickly without any issues.
I also assisted Taylor in the production of his video by acting as boom operator and providing moral support.
Wednesday the 1st of March
Today I helped film Jess' second video. I operated the right hand camera that was used to provide a close up for Jess. I was responsible for ensuring that the shot was properly framed and in focus whilst working with the other camera operator to make sure that things such as the eye line and head space are similar in both shots. The shoot went very well and what got everything that we needed in about an our using both cameras a good amount each.
Thursday the 2nd of March
Today we created our last video for the Ufilms Oscars rundown, the outro. This involved everyone being on camera except for Rhys and Adam who had to hold up a white sheet so that we could fit everyone in. The shoot went well and was over in just a couple of takes. It will be uploaded on Saturday to mark the end of our 2 week series.
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