Week 7

This week seemed to fly by. The sunshine was enjoyable though I think the heat drained me. Moving on, on Monday, the fire alarm went off, after waiting for this situation to be resolved, Ross and I had an update with Adam discussing and developing our Webisodes. I hadn't done much developing of the story but Ross and I researched the style and look of the series. Adam advised us to think more about developing characters and story rather than finding a look of something that's not even there. He has a point.

Kim was with us in the afternoon where we amalgamated the classes work on Corrie then broke down our story beats into scene by scenes. Tedious but we finally got there thanks to Phil (as I said before I was drained). 

Tuesday the camera department for Little Clown (L.C) played around with the Kit. That's all we did sort of. We tried a few lighting arrangements for L.C but it never worked out. I think the DP wanted more lights. 

Wednesday we had a class with Ray in the Agos foyer, I didn't hear a word he said because of the musical brass heads above us. I caught some information, he showed us to assemble the matte box and follow focus on the camera and talked a little about the filters. On The Love, Mugs and stick men shoot I tried a little focus pulling but it was extremely difficult. The Follow focus gadget, I presume takes the extremely difficult out of focus pulling. Don't get me wrong I still need to learn about the WHOLE THEORY behind focus pulling but that's for second year. Interesting session it has just opened my eyes how little I know about THE CAMERA. I will get there though.

We had Abigail for a production meeting. I find it difficult to hold my concentration in this class. I do realise this is one of the Most Important elements in the industry, If not THE most important. Next production session that comes up this coming week I will give all my concentration.

Thursday was a Major disappointment I was working on Murdo's production 'Dust.' Everything was running smoothly we Sound, Make up,  Actors  Lights, Camera, then finally Acti... no maybe not. The 570 rejected a mini DV tape and a red light started flashing. Warning Warning Warning. The director called off the shoot.  

The next morning Ray was not impressed. The 570 will probably have to go away for repair. "Right enough this hitch did come up at the "right moment" with many shoots to be completed in about two or so weeks. " Before the Dust shoot I checked the camera equipment to make sure it was all working, but I never thought of the tape mechanism.

Hopefully next week will run more smoothly.