Project 2 - Two Way Conversation Analysis

Two Way Conversation

Here a list of who's in my group and the roles within the group for this project.

My group:
Director - Rhianwen Davies
Lights/Boom Operator - Emily Barresi
Camera Operator - Kimberly McClarnan
Production Sound Mixer - Liam King

Actors:
Alex Jones
Isabel Morgan

Camera Operator -
My role during our second project was setting up all the equipment to use for the camera and also make sure that it is fully charged. I took out and used a Canon 60D from stores in the university followed by a tripod and made sure I had an SD card. I followed the directors instruction on where she wanted to put the camera to film different shot types for example we used close up shots, long shots, mid shots, over the shoulder shots etc. Before filming for a shot, I made sure that the object I was filming was in focus and made sure that the director was happy with the shot so we could go ahead and film it. After ever shot I filmed, I called the director over to make sure that she was happy with the shots before we moved on to another shot. Some I was filming, you could see the boom coming into shot so I had to stop recording and tell the director so we can re-shoot again and make sure that Emily, who was in charge of the boom wasn't going to be in shot again.

Overall Performance - 
For this project, I thought it was so much better than the first filming we did for Film Noir. This is basically because we had better actors who remembered their lines quicker and they didn't laugh as much or they didn't forget any of their lines and we managed to film in 3 hours. We all carried out our roles properly and made sure that the director was happy with her choices before moving on. There were some parts that I felt were tricky which was when I had to keep a certain picture in focus while its being moved across the table so my shot for that was a pan and I had to take a few shots because the picture kept going out of focus and also at one point I was moving the camera slow then fast. We eventually got over that point as I managed to get it right and the director was happy with that shot. I enjoyed filming for this short film as the story and script that Rhianwen made up was interesting and good so I enjoyed using the camera to film it and having more experience.

Problems? - 
There were a few problems during filming that we all found and pointed out. As we shot this in the studio, during filming, Liam who was on sound could here people talking and walking up and down the corridors which we obviously didn't want, there were a lot of shadows shown from the lighting so Emily had to make it right and do them shots again and also the batteries in the sound kept running out so we had to keep changing them over again. When Rhianwen made an assembly edit to show to the class, there were so many mistakes we made but at the time when we were filming, we kept looking back in the camera seeing if anything was in shot, to see if everything in focus and to see if there was any shadows about but it was all perfect but when it was showed on screen there were lots of mistakes which was strange.