Filming!

The day of filming!

After a considerable wait at the university equipment loan centre the group met up with the star of our video, Toni, and headed to the location.

Once outside The Boardroom we decided to start with capturing the audio before wearing Toni out with numerous takes. Unfortunately while setting up our zoom audio recorder, we found out that the zoom recorder or boom mic was not working. This was a little bit of a set back, yet we didn't let it hold us up. We attempted to record using the microphones on the cameras but Toni spoke to softly for them to pick his voice up. We decided as a group that we will have to record the audio another day and that we should focus on the visual today.

And thats what we did. We had three DSLR cameras between us in the group and all took turns using them and capturing different elements and angles of Toni dancing. We had prepared a call sheet and story board prior to filming to roughly guide us, however a lot of shots came from talking to Toni, letting him dance, then planning how we could incorporate that move - and the best way to film it.

Over all we were able to get a lot of footage from outside and inside The Boardroom. The group worked really well together, and communicated great. And Toni was even able to help as he has the superior knowledge about the form of dance. Now we need to go over the footage and edit a rough cut and see if we need to re-shoot anything. And of course we will be recording the sound too.