The Attic Filming/ Plans for the Hotel Du Vin Shoot.

The filming at the attic on 7th April proved to be quite successful despite a few hiccups with the filming equipment.

We had originally planned to film with two cameras; one would have been static and have the audio directly connected with the feed from the speakers so we would have a very clear sound of the band playing which we would sync up with the footage from the other, moving camera. However, unfortunately the static camera appeared to have a faulty card reader and thus the footage that was being recorded was ultimately lost because the memory card hadn't saved it. After inquiring about this problem, I found that apparently some second year students had similar problems with the camera.

Because of this, we now only have the footage from the moving camera and we have thus lost the clear audio sound quality which we had hoped to get. The sound that has been recorded on the moving camera has some unbalanced audio and some of the audio is out of sync. Hopefully the syncing problem should be fixable during the editing.

I think the solution to tackling the varying audio quality would be to use only parts of the footage where the audio was of good quality or even take the sound from another existing video of the band playing and try to match up the sound from that footage with that of our footage. Hopefully this will lead to some consistent audio to match the video.

I believe we are planning on filming our next interview on Tuesday 25th April at the Hotel Du Vin to interview Mark Davyd from the Music Venue Trust. We were hoping to film the interview in the hotel room in which Mark Davyd is staying however, we were given a message by the hotel requesting that we do not film in the hotel room but rather in the lounge area. This means that we will have to be cautious of the other hotel guests.

I had contacted the hotel du vin to make sure our group had permission as we had not so far. I was unable to reach the hotel by the email given to me over the phone but I was able to pass on the email information to another person in my group and they were able to get through.

I have also created a risk assessment for this interview as well.

In terms of equipment, we will take out the Sony EX camera as well as the tripod and boom microphone. We will not  be taking out any lighting equipment as we hope that the lighting in the lounge area will be suitable for our shoot.