Jacob Gill Problems with first attempt

Problems with first attempt of media film


On our first attempt of filming our media project we encountered various problems that needed addressing for our film to be a successful project. The first problem we encountered was that the script we had written was to rigid an inflexible for the film to have an authentic feel to it. After studying various interviews with bands and interviews in general we, as a group decided, that the best solution to this problem was to have a script for the interviewer (myself) to follow yet the answers that the band gave should be, to a degree, ad libbed yet containing key words from the script. For instance, the interviewer asks (from the script) “How has the band evolved since you started out?” the responding answer should have contained key phrases such as “we started out really raw” and also “we’ve really changed our sound” by using this method of dialogue we gave the illusion that the interview was relaxed and ‘off the cuff’ yet to a degree a script was stuck to for the most part of the interview.

The second problem we encountered during our shoot was the functions of the camera and the use of equipment. Before filming the white balance on the camera was not adjusted, which in turn gave a yellow hew through filming, this caused problems when it came to editing our film later. Another problem with the camera and equipment was that during scene’s where the band was playing instruments the boom we where using was picking up the sound on too high of a level meaning that the sound was too loud to use and distorted which could not be fixed in editing.

Another problem we faced during filming was that the camera we where using had not been set to a high definition setting which caused massive problems during editing and gave a bad quality of picture for the part of the film we had shot.