The Historic Dock Yard has been used as a filming location for years now having films such as Sherlock Holmes, Muppets Most Wanted, Les Miserables, Victor Frankenstein, as well as Television shows such as Downton Abbey and Call the Midwife. This workshop was for us to learn what it is like to have to evaluate a location and film all the footage with only limited time since a lot of the time in the industry, you'll be going to locations to film and won't get a chance to recce until you arrive there.
We got to choose where to film and me and my team chose a ship which is docked at the Dockyard. We had to look through the location, assess the risks and write up a risk assessment and then go and collect the kit before going to film. We assessed the location and checked all the possible risks, from the obvious such as filming on a ship and trip hazards due to the step before the door. Down to the space inside the ship and what to do if there is a fire or a emergency where we have to leave the ship straight away.
Once we'd assessed the location we went an picked up our kit. We were given the Sony EX cameras and we were recommended to use these cameras for our documentary. We took our kit and started filming. We got our establishing shots of the ship before walking on and getting our interview. We interviewed the tour guide Tony Peacock who has worked for the Dockyard for years. We moved around and got more footage of the ship both inside and out before wrapping.
We focused on the history of the ship since it's the main area of interest and I asked the questions which were relevant to be able to use the interview as the main voice over.
Once we'd completed this I was off sick and wasn't there for the edit but my team mates explained that for the edit they chose to have an introduction to the history of the ship and then go more into it but move in slowly.
What we learnt from this workshop was that we are more likely to use DSLR cameras over the Sony EX. Our reason is we found the set up for this interview took too long and wasn't needed. As well, we want to have either 2 or 3 camera set up for the interviews to get more coverage in the small amount of time that we have. Since we are planning on having a presenter we want to get all the footage of them asking the questions but also talking to the interviewee's and discussing the topic. We can't do these with the Sony's since we can't take 3 cameras and travel-wise it's a lot easier for us to take DSLR Cameras as they're lighter. However, since we've done a test with the Sony's we've decided to test the DSLR set-up.
We got to choose where to film and me and my team chose a ship which is docked at the Dockyard. We had to look through the location, assess the risks and write up a risk assessment and then go and collect the kit before going to film. We assessed the location and checked all the possible risks, from the obvious such as filming on a ship and trip hazards due to the step before the door. Down to the space inside the ship and what to do if there is a fire or a emergency where we have to leave the ship straight away.
Once we'd assessed the location we went an picked up our kit. We were given the Sony EX cameras and we were recommended to use these cameras for our documentary. We took our kit and started filming. We got our establishing shots of the ship before walking on and getting our interview. We interviewed the tour guide Tony Peacock who has worked for the Dockyard for years. We moved around and got more footage of the ship both inside and out before wrapping.We focused on the history of the ship since it's the main area of interest and I asked the questions which were relevant to be able to use the interview as the main voice over.
Once we'd completed this I was off sick and wasn't there for the edit but my team mates explained that for the edit they chose to have an introduction to the history of the ship and then go more into it but move in slowly.
What we learnt from this workshop was that we are more likely to use DSLR cameras over the Sony EX. Our reason is we found the set up for this interview took too long and wasn't needed. As well, we want to have either 2 or 3 camera set up for the interviews to get more coverage in the small amount of time that we have. Since we are planning on having a presenter we want to get all the footage of them asking the questions but also talking to the interviewee's and discussing the topic. We can't do these with the Sony's since we can't take 3 cameras and travel-wise it's a lot easier for us to take DSLR Cameras as they're lighter. However, since we've done a test with the Sony's we've decided to test the DSLR set-up.
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