Unit 38-Production diary-Multi-camera 'Cinderella' live show

27/11/13

We had our first production meeting, deciding on job roles, I took on the role of  the vision mixer, every member of the group had to operate a camera aswell, vision mixing involes putting footage from multiple cameras into one sequence synced together.

To become more familiar with the 'vision mixer' role I researched the role on the skillset website, i found alot of information which can be found below. A lot of the information found here is irrelevant as we don't actually have a vision mixer, instead the production will be vision mixed in post.

11/12/13

We went to the theatre to perform a location recce, this involved a risk assessment and a camera plan so we knew where the cameras were going. While filling out the risk assessment we pointed out a number of risks that would apply to the crew, audience and cast of the production. These included trailing wires which had the potential to trip up participants and audience members, to avoid this we decided it would be appropriate to tape the wires down minimising the risk.

17/12/13

Today we went to a rehearsal of the show, this allowed us to prepare for set changes and charcter positions. We were also able to identify any problems we would find with the camera positions and get a general idea of the running time. We found that our selected camera positions were suitable and that our plans could go ahead. 

 

18/12/13

 

Today we filmed the cinderella production, we stuck to our previous camera plan which gave us sufficient coverage of action, half-way through the production we all swapped cameras so we were filming from a new angle

 

09/01/14

 

We began capturing the footage, we only had 4 tapes so the rest of the tapes would have to be captured another day

 

13/01/14

 

We captured 3 more tapes today, leaving only 1 tape to be captured at a later date

 

14/01/14

 

we captured the last tape today, aswell as editing the entire show, to ensure we all got assessed for the edit we did a quarter of the edit each, we also exported the production

 

15/01/14

 

Today we buint the production to disc, this is the way the the production is assessed.