Friday, 6 May 2011

Work Placement - Paint Works

Wednesday
I arrived at 9:45 and met danny at 10, we spoke about my interests and experience to try and sort out some work I could do. I was set the task of writing a guide to filming a skateboarding film. It had to include techniques and equipment used, as well as health and safety precautions. So i started on this straight away until 11 when some of the students arrived. Danny asked them if there was anything i could help them with, and there was a project that needed to be captured and edited. It was a political debate at BSU. I then spent the day capturing the tapes on 2 different computers, whilst working on the written project in between.

Thursday
Started the day by carrying on with research on skate project, and writing it up. I worked on that untill lunch, came back after lunch and finished it off, and then went through it with Danny, he was impressed with it and said it was going to be put in to a file at Paintworks for anyone interested in making a skateboarding film. After this i started on the political debate, but there was problems with the footage being from 2 different computers so some of the clips were named the same, so i had to spend the whole afternoon renaming them, and deleting all the clips that had copied them selves. It took ages and was really tedious but it was kind of my fault. One of the students set up the other computer for me so i just assumed it would have been done properly.

Friday
Arrived at 9:45, but Danny wasn't in till 11. So I spent the morning talking to some of the students and looking through their work, I was also involved in the production meeting for their showcase event. It was really productive and anything i wanted to know i found out. This was one of the best things about going to Paintwork's, and made up for the fact i didn't really have much to do whilst I was there. In the afternoon myself and Danny tried to get the multiclip going but it wasn't happening. There were to many issues with the footage and tapes and Danny told me not to worry about it.

Tuesday
I filmed with danny at Newton park for the Future Fairs, a day of talks about different subjects and ways of getting in their respective industries after uni. I arrived at 8am to meet Danny, Although he was 30mins late so we didn't have much time to prepare. It was a good experience because we had to set up really quickly, in front of lots of people. It was high pressure but i carried out my tasks well - Setting up camera's, tripods, tapes, batteries, and wiring up the mics. We had to film 3 1 hour talks in a row, and only had 4-5 mins between each one to change the tapes and get ready for the next one. For the first 2 I was on camera, responsible for getting close ups of who ever was talking, and for the last one i was on sound. It was a very useful experience and Danny was a great help, I just made sure to ask lots of questions where ever I was unsure and i was really happy with how i worked.

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