Monday, 26 November 2012

Filming 'The Manual' Intro


Later in the day on Monday, we filmed the intro for our commissioned show, ‘The Manual’, in the CCi studio. For this filming, we mainly used the 3 male presenters, Charlie, Dom and Umby, because we wanted them to get to know each other more and start to get into the role.

For the intro, we wanted to film men doing various ‘man tasks’ and silhouette them for a nice ‘arty’ look. The green screen within the studio was therefore the best place to film this, as we did not want anything in the background.

For this filming, I brought many props that we would use to show these ‘man tasks’ and examples of games they will take part in during the show, such as a dumbbell, a steering wheel cut-out, a hammer and ‘The Manual’ book. Rather than book a camera out to film this, we decided to use the studio camera record directly onto Avid in the edit room within the CCi office. To relay instructions between the studio and edit room, we used the walkie-talkies, which was a lot easier and quicker.

To make it easier for us in the studio to see how it would look as a silhouette, we turned on the monitor in the studio and I adjusted the key settings on the Tricaster. However we had to revert back to the normal key whenever we wanted to record otherwise the silhouettes wouldn’t look very good. We went through most of the shots that I had listed, but some we left out because they were not very recognisable or couldn’t be achieved very well.

At the end of the day, Michael and myself booked out equipment for our filming on December 5th and 6th. These shoots will also require a fair amount of equipment as there is a lot going on and we want to make it look as good as possible. After that we decided to have a quick look upstairs in the room that we would be filming the DIY assembly challenge. This room seemed quite noisy due to the air conditioning, which we will look into to see if we can turn it off. We may turn all the lights off in this room and solely use our own lights to give the room a better look.

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