Kill it Kid- blog 3 Logging and Capturing

Today I logged and captured all of the five tapes in which we used to film the band Kill It Kid

I set up a Scratch disk and logged and captured the footage, click on the link for a step by step introduction  link  of logging and capturing.

• Problems

I encountered two main problems when i was logging and capturing the footage. My first problem was...

• One of the tapes was stuck in the tape deck. 

I am mystified as to how it happened, But one of the tapes that i was logging and capturing at the time.  Became stuck in one of the tape decks. I notified Richard Wood (technician) who in turn told me that he would try and remove the tape out of the deck without damaging the equipment when he had some time and if he could not then he would  to take the deck to an engineer in Bristol.

• Sound/Image

I noticed that on one of the tapes had bad sound quality and at the start of one of the tape some of the imagery became damaged meaning I could not capture some of the footage on the tape. This will be reviewed when me and the team enter the post-production faze of this project in more detail.

Kill IT Kid : Blog 2 Filming

Today we filmed the epic band Kill It Kid at Komedia in Bath.


The day went as follows....

• Arrival

We arrived at the venue at two in the afternoon to look at the location and note which would be the most appropriate places to film and setup each of the four cameras.

• Setup

We used four Sony Z1 Cameras and set the cameras up in four different locations. One camera was setup on the balcony and the other camera was setup in front of the main stage.  The other two cameras were handheld with two team members filming different scenes Keiran was filming the performance from the back of the stage and Harry/Tom and tom were filming the performance from a close up angle in the front.

• Each of the four cameras were positioned within the different locations for different reasons

My Camera (the main camera) was positioned in front of the stage on a Tripod so that it could capture establishing/the main shots and the back of the audience which would be frequently used during the edit of the package I was also told to zoom in and out during some songs and pickup the main singer

The camera on the balcony was positioned on the balcony so that it could capture an overhead shot of the audience and the keyboard player mainly

The two handheld cameras were positioned for similar reasons one was positioned behind the stage was positioned there so that it could capture the band from behind and the audience reaction/and the one was positioned from the front of the stage so it could pick up the band from a pov shot and the audiences perspective as well.

• Multi Camera

We filmed the band using a multi-cam format what is a multi camera format ? a multi camera format is a method of filming which various cameras that are filming the same thing are positioned at different angles
the scenes are filmed in sync and each of the cameras individually are picking up a subject.

• On the day we filmed as follows

• The bands performance

• The interview with the band

• The crowds reaction

• Vox-Pops from fans

• How the day went

The filming went according to plan and we were able to film the whole day successfully on tape even though I failed to change my tape over after the fith (as we agreed previously) we were able to capture the footage successfully.