This week, Mark and I had to create a short video between 1 minute to 1 minute 30 seconds as a a part of our courses 'TVPlay' Series. Our course leader Simon said put the idea to us that we interview writer of BBC series 'Outlaws' Steve Coombes, and ask him his top 5 tips for screenwriting. My initial idea was just for a simple interview with him with some graphics emphasising his the tips he has given. But, Mark had a different idea to mine which was to film it in the style of an old black and white silent film. The reason Mark thought of this idea was because we were told to make the video fun and unique, and this turned out to be a great way for us to present this. This project would be a good practise to see how Mark and I could work filming together, where we could see the positives and negatives of our working relationship. This is very important as if there were any issues with us working together filming, we could work together and try to find a way to combat the issue. Mark came up with the concept, provided a voice over for the film as well as editing, while I also took part in editing and also focused on the camerawork and what the best shots we should use were.
This exercise has helped me personally as it has given me a refresh of the basics which was needed after nearly a 5 month break of filming. Also I did make an error with the audio for the interview with Steve. The room that was chosen as the location for filming the interview was big so his voice was very echoey when recorded, and also the volume levels the clip mic was on was wrong for his voice so it was very pitchy and partially muffled in some places as well. This provided me with two valuable experiences, first one being how to correct these errors in the future by correctly setting up the clip mics, the second one being how to correct these errors through post editing, and the third being to think more about how filming in certain locations could affect the recording of audio and visuals.
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