Week 2

So then, this week we had a quick recap on what we learnt last week before setting out to our task this week which was to film an interview for a talk show. We were all assigned to different roles and I was assigned to operate Camera 3 aimed at the presenter while camera 2 was aimed at both presenter and guest in a long shot and 1 at the guest. This week we also used the radios more, we had looked at them and had a short go with them last week but it was only this week when we really got to use them, it was pretty cool talking to people in a different rooms without a cell phone, it kind of brought me back to being a kid on the farm in Canada when we used to use CB radios to talk to each other during the harvest with full CB lingo. I gotta admit I was really tempted to use my CB talk but I was sure most people there wouldn’t know what I was on about. Anyway, with the help of the radios we worked well together and created a fairly good video. I mean I saw quite a few ways we could have improved upon it but for our second week using these devices I’m pretty proud of our work.
 The set didn't change much this week, but these were the cameras we used, mine is on the right

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