Conservation Show (Group A)

With our final production, our group decided on the topic of conservations. We had five people in our group, with one of us playing the role as the host, three of us on cameras, and last one as the technical director. My part in the production was to operate one of the cameras. Before we started shooting, we set up the cameras to give us the best shots possible. Some of the things included, white balance, focal length, and the fixation in the background. (so our talent does not look like they are floating into space) When we finish those steps, I would test some the shots to see how they look and get an idea of what to expect. Examples would be, a two shot right, or three shot right, and even an establishing shot that shows all four people. Once we finished with that, then our director decided on which shot she wanted to use first. The first shot would be an establishing shot on my camera. As the show begins, I did find myself to get better with the camera.

As the show proceeded, for the most part all the directions from the technical director were straight forward and made my job a little easier. Only a few times where I had to get the shot more quickly because the camera that was being recorded had no one speaking. I did enjoy the environment though, the feeling to be alert and ready when my camera needed a different shot. On set we had one host and three guests, so most of my shots were two shots and three shots. Not as many closeups I thought I would be needed for. Otherwise I felt more confident as the show progress and got different types of shots. Mainly this was my job while we produced the show.

In the post production stage, we will be editing our footage from the studio as well as footage from a third and fourth camera from our group. We decided to put all the footage on my external hard drive so it will be easy to edit everything at once. All next week we will be doing this so we will be done by finals week. This production group worked really well with each other and made the environment relaxed. This class has been a great learning experience for being the guinea pigs of the studio. I'm still learning about the studio world but I feel that I'm on the right track.