Love Angle: Nothing Quite Like Film
Penguin July 1st, 2007
We started our first shooting day today and oh my goodness, there is nothing else like shooting video. The only thing better would probably be film. But until I can get a budget of a million dollars, it’ll remain a pipe dream.
I had borrowed Nancinator’s camera for the shoot. I didn’t have a chance to pick up any miniDV tapes, so I used on of her’s. When we got back to edit the video, we saw that we had taped over part of a wedding. Luckily, the wedding was about a year old and all the footage had been captured.
We spent about a little more than an hour shooting two scenes, when edited, resulted in in about maybe a minute and a half worth of footage. Not bad.
Some of the lessons we learned.
- Shotgun mics are awesome, but not when the actor is right next to the mic.
- Be careful which XLR to 1/8″ adapter you buy, the one I picked up is mono, which sucks
- When your actors are giving lines, make sure they give a little space between each other’s lines. It makes for editing in cover a lot easier.
I have about two weeks to continue working on the script. Hopefully, I can make some dialogue that’s more interesting.
-Penguin
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