Writing Center after thoughts

In our studio production class, we’ve just finished recording our writing center shoot. We did two days of shooting and the second day has better footage to choose from. I feel that I gained more experience and the class is getting more comfortable with every day we are in the studio.

Studio from Swedish Show

            My role that I played in was setting up the camera, lighting, and recording. The camera we did alternative shots to see which angle we liked the best. We did decide to use one camera only and focus right on the talent. While working with the camera, the lights were being tested as well. We notice there were some shadows on some of the talents faces, so we adjusted the fill light and back light to get the look we wanted. I was the test subject while changing the light; I just helped out by sitting where the talent would be. The last part I helped out in was the recording in the control room. We had to adjust the volume to zero out the footage to be recorded on the normal and HD, which we recorded in HD. After that I put in the tape in to record and hit record. We just let the tape rolling so we wouldn’t have to worry about timing issues.

            When we were shooting for the real, I notice that the talent would raise their voice and sounded completely different. I felt that their practice with the script was a lot calmer and relax. That is another reason why we just let the tape rolling. One point that was a major difference between day one and two was the body position of each talent. The first day the talents were looking away from the camera and it wasn’t the best. We set up a board with the script on it so they can read it; we changed that the second day. We had another person sit next to the camera and give the talent the lines of the script. The shots were better when we switched to this view instead of the first day. Sometimes the talent would not look into the camera directly, but it was still good work for not being professionals.

            This class for studio production has gone really well and everybody gets along with each other pretty smoothly. I feel if we continue to work hard in this class we will produce some great work. I believe we can give a genre of shows from topics, to game shows, and even some SNL. We have the people and everybody really enjoys this class. This is probably one of my favorite classes since being here at Shepherd. Let’s continue on this path…