The first thing that I had to think about
if I wanted to produce my project individually or in a small group. The outcome was working with two other
members (Jamie and Owen). The next task for the day was to brainstorm our ideas
of what our project could be. After coming up with these ideas we eventually
narrowed it down to filming the football lads playing cross bar challenge which
would consist of two teams of players trying to hit the crossbar from a certain
distance the side who hit the bar the most would win. So we went to James
Hartley who is the sports maker for Middleborough College. The first constraint
in our production was finding out that the colleges football pitch was not
available to use for health and safety reasons, however we overcome this
constraint by asking if there were any upcoming sports events such as
basketball, volleyball or cricket. James had told us that he could email us
details of the events happening so that we could get a hold of the equipment
for the date.
These were the original ideas that we came
up with to base our multi camera production. The idea that we chose was to film
the college football team doing the’’cross bar challenge’’.
Chat show
Game interview
Filming the
college football doing the cross bar challenge
A fight
Filming a live
music video production
Someone with a
drug addiction
Skateboarding line
Basketball filming
Filming a live
performance show or the actors rehearsing.
The next thing to was start producing the
pre production documents such as: risk assessments, call sheets, equipment booking
forms ect.
21/11/17 we have completed the pre
production documents including risk assessments, call sheets and booking forms.
Completing the documents that fit for out production was fairly easy and is a
must when it comes to video production. We are all set to film the volleyball
match on the 27th of November.
27/11/17- the day of the production didn’t
go as planned, members of the group had not turned up for the production so we
decided to postpone the production for another week. This was the biggest constraint
of the production so far, thanks to Jamie.
4/11/17-
We carried out production recording the volleyball team players in
practice in the sports hall. The production went through pretty well because
everything went through as planned. The biggest constraint of the production
was the volley balls which were nearly hitting the equipment this was overcome
by blocking the balls from enouncing the equipment. On the day of production
Jamie one of the members in our group didn’t turn up to the production set so
we asked another member of the course who wasn’t in our group if she would film
for us because we couldn’t film it all between the two of us original members.
Without her the production wouldn’t of happened. We used 4 cameras consisting
of 2 DSLR’S, 1 black magic and 1 GoPro camera, meaning that we have got plenty
of footage to edit in post production. All three of us had a camera each to operate however
Owen had two cameras to operate. We decided not to record audio and instead we
will have a tune or some sort of sound in the background over the production
footage. I think our production is a good example of a multi-camera production
as it uses different range of cameras set up in different places.
The location visit was a bit tricky and
weird at the start, the volley ball players and coach weren’t told that we were
coming in to shoot, which was a constraint however we discussed and overcame
the constraint to carry out the production as planned. The practice went on as
expected we filmed about 30 minutes of the training which was enough for us to
use for our multi-camera production. A lot of credit for todays location visit
goes to Katie for filling in for the other crew member who didn’t show up.
Floor plan
Floor plans are a good thing to produce
before you shoot as you can plan where your cameras and other pieces of
equipment are going to be placed for the production which means on the day you
can place the equipment in their spots without thinking about it. Our location
was an indoor rectangular sports hall with a net in the middle. Unfortunately
due to the circumstances of the players being in the way and the net being to
high we weren’t able to place the cameras were we wanted them to be placed.
We
are filming volleyball in the Middleborough college sport hall the area is a
rectangular. There is a lot of things going in a volleyball which means that we
had to use a lot of equipment for the multi-camera production. This is what our
floor plan will look like…
The next step to complete is the post
production stage, unfortunately the video will not be finalized until the new
year when we go back to college. After the video footage is edited we will evaluate
how the full production went as a group. A write up for what we did in the edit and how
we did it will also be done.
Equipment
booking form
The equipment booking form was needed to
book out the equipment that we needed to produce our multi camera
production. Audio is very important for
our production so microphones would be needed and the chosen ones were one zoom
mic and one shotgun mic which will record the volley ball teams movement/
voices and the ball bouncing off the players hands and the floor, we will also
need tripods to be booked out to keep
the cameras still and in place as well as two DSLR cameras to get the footage
of the volleyball training.
This booking equipment form was for the
football match that we filmed, however we made the mistake of not booking out
enough equipment so when we filmed the volleyball we made sure we hade more
than what we needed. Which consisted of 2 DSLR’s 1 go pro 2 black magic cameras,
4 tripods and one zoom microphone.
Links to the equipment we used:
Constraints in
the production
The was a small amount constraint for the
group when we produced our pre production documents each member for the group
worked on different documents of pre production which were all completed to a
satisfactory standard. Members of the
group made more than one document for example two risk assessments and three
call sheets were made. The biggest constraint of the pre production stage would
be carrying out different documents for two different projects. Our first idea
was to film a volleyball game which we had made documents for and one of our
crew members never turned up on the day so we decided to film a football match
a couple of days after for this we needed to carry out a different risk
assessment, floor plan and call sheet. As well as another booking equipment
form. After filming the match, we decided that the footage we captured wasn’t
up to a satisfactory standard so we decided to film the volleyball match again
luckily we didn’t have to make more pre production documents because we already
had them. However, another booking form had to be produced meaning we had made
three different forms for our production which became pretty tedious.
The main constraints started to occur in
our group when we were in the production stage of getting the footage. The day
that we were originally supposed to shoot our multi-camera production was put
off because not everyone in the group turned up to the shoot. This really set us back because we had little
time to complete the assignment, the astro turf got sorted out and passed its
health and safety test so we ended up organizing to produce a football game at Middleborough
College where the Middleborough College played Gatestead College. The game was
arranged on the following Wednesday which gave us little time for planning and
producing the pre production documents for the production, however we completed
the documents and went through to produce our project based on the football
game. On the day of shooting it was raining on and off so we only managed to
get a small amount of footage which wasn’t enough to use for our multi camera
production. The pre production documents we made for the football match were
useless but could still be used for our write up. We have now booked out
equipment to go through with our original plan to film a volleyball match which
wont be affected by weather. We will be filming the game on the 4th
of December. The only benefit of having
producing so many pre production documents is that we have more to write about
when we are evaluating our production. To make sure I don’t have such
constraints again I will make sure that the person in our group who let us down
will never be in a group with me again.
Constraints of filming the volley ball practice
were pretty minimal however the black magic camera which we used didn’t have a
big enough lens to fit all of the court in, luckily we had 2 DSLR’s on set
which had wide angled lenses which filmed the entire court.
Unfortunately, I had planned jaw surgery on
the 7th of December meaning that Owen and Jamie would have to carry
out the post production for the remaining two weeks of college this was
probably the biggest constraint throughout the project however it was planned
so we made sure that the hardest and most time consuming part of the project was
carried out before the 7th of December, this meant that all that was
left to do was to edit and evaluate.
Another major constraint that Jamie and Owen had was that the editing
computers were not working so it was not possible for the footage to be edited
on the week they were supposed to edit which was the week commencing the 11/12/17.
The constraint was over come by Andy changing the deadline to a further date
because of the computers not working to make matters worse the college broke up
on the 19th of December meaning that the edit wont be finalized
until the new year.
