FM25420 Creative Documentary Peter Williams

  This week has been one of the harder weeks for our group, because we have to film three times instead of one, our project is a music video, today we recorded the studio sequence and this Saturday and next Tuesday we are recording rest of it on location. My job though this week was rather simple, I was the script supervisor so all I had to do was supervise the script, make sure everyone knew their lines and keep track of it  and make sure they didn’t forget their lines, I also had to read through the script after it was completed to check for errors. As the performance was a song however the singers knew the lines by heart fr om practicing, so I also helped out several people in the galley who were experiencing technical difficulties, The first two takes were ok, but by the third we began to go through some communication issues so we didn’t livestream the final take on Instagram as we planned to do at the beginning of the session, because we were worried it would all fall apart duri

This Week was reading week, so not much happened along the lines of creative studio.

So then, this week I volunteered to be one of two producers for this film, which was a cooking show. My job was rather simple, I had to arrange a meeting to go through and assign everyone else’s role last Monday, which we did with no trouble, after that I had to pick up the groceries for our meal, a peanut butter chocolate banana sandwich, the second producer had already acquired bananas with her weekly groceries so I all I had to get were the rest of the ingredients. Unfortunately, on our day of filming, the weather dropped to around -5 degrees Celsius with snow and because most people aren’t as hardy as us Canadians, almost a quarter of the class couldn’t make it to the session. Therefore, we had to divide their roles among us, so I became the operator of camera three. My camera’s job was to show each of the ingredients and follow our chief’s hands as he made the sandwich. Although that sounds rather easy, our chief kept moving his hands up and down as he cut the banana which led t