FM25420 Creative Documentary Peter Williams

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 ...

This is the first week of Creative Studio and I'll be using this blog to keep a week by week record of this module. So, to start with is this first week, this week we learnt about the module itself and what it consists of. We also had a go with the equipment we’ll be using throughout the 10 weeks, first we took a look at the cameras and I’ve gotta say there a lot different from the cameras I use for Youtube and those for the previous creative modules. First off, there all on mounts and tripods with wheels on them and the recording and from what I can tell a few other bits like the white balance are controlled from the galley above use, I may be wrong maybe there are buttons to control it on the camera itself but I didn’t get a chance to take a thorough look at the camera. Anyway, after that we went upstairs to the galley, where the director, producer and a few others not needed in the studio at the filming time would work from. While up here we took a look at all the equipmen...