Behinds The Scenes Filming 1

At last it was decided that we would shoot some behind the scenes material during the studio rehearsal today. We also had our presenters in for the first time so thankfully there were no substitutes needed. I worked as sound operator and assistant camera, as is my appointed job for this production, and thus operated the various microphones we used including the 'shotgun' microphone, clip-on microphones and the boom microphone while monitoring the sound coming in through them.

We managed to get footage of various people doing their jobs, some having a somewhat comedic aspect to them which I am not sure was entirely appropriate. We also spoke to the director, the people operating the VTs and the vision mixing desk and even the presenters. Most people were happy to talk to us while others just didn't want to be shown on camera.

I did honestly get the feeling that we were actually bothering everyone and causing a nuisance to what they were supposed to be doing but this was the direction that our behind the scenes director wanted and thus this was the way it was shot.

The overall sound quality I found sounded of good quality. On the headset, during recording, there seemed to be an abundance of background noise but thankfully this didn't seem to be picked up nearly as much when we put the footage onto an editing software for review and each interviewee could be heard clearly.

We were told to make sure that the footage captured would not show anything that might reflect badly on a particular individual or group of people as people from the industry may be looking at these and watch how certain people act in a working environment. We took note of this an wuld never intend to mae anyone look bad, meaning that we would review all footage to make sure it is suitable before editing.

Overall I thought today went well and we hope to get more footage during future rehearsals and also during the actual time of production.


*This has been added after writing but unfortunately I was marked down for not being in attendance this day. Hopefully this blog and also the footage shot can help prove that I was indeed in attendance.