Overall, there were two important lessons that my group and
I learned from our filming experiences during week two:
Lighting: The first interview we conducted took place
in my dorm room, where I test interviewed my roommate about League of Legends
Club and his impressions and the clubs. I made sure that every light in the
room was turned on a focused in his direction, yet the lighting in the final
shot was still atrocious. This resulted in interview footage that would have legitimately
detracted from the documentary, by making it uninteresting to look at. To
remedy this issue, we scouted out locations before filming in Stewart and
discovered that on the third floor, next to the windows, the ambient lighting
was perfect for interviewing subjects. From then on, all of our interviews
were conducted next to the largest window we could find in whatever building we were filming in.
Camera Malfunctions: On three separate instances,
while interviewing members of the League of Legends club, our camera stopped
recording mid-sentence. For the most part, we were able to remedy this issue by
simply asking the subject the question over again. But in some cases, the
answers were not of the same quality as the first take, which resulted in us
losing valuable shots and quotes. We learned that we had to have one person
solely dedicated to watching the ‘Writing Speed Buffer’ during recording, which
indicates how quickly the camera is writing the video to the memory card.
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