Commissions Unit - Production

Firstly, we shot the interviews in the base room, with the contributors (4 directors of the firm) shooting 2 on the left and 2 on the right (Appendix 3). This will add variation to the interviews and make the shots less stale. A board relating to Harrisons was placed next to the contributor. The boards were not relative to the contributor in question necessarily but showed a bit of backdrop to what the company has dealt with. I used the Zoom on its basic stereo setting and placed the microphone in front of the contributor to get the best sound. Based on projects I have seen before, a lot of others practise with clipmics in shot. I have an internal logic that you wouldn’t have a boom pole, tripod, lighting kit or any other sort of kit in shot, so this can be sorted with a zoom microphone. We had ultimate control over the room and there was little to no buzz noise in the background so I could get in as close as I wanted, whilst maintaining an eye line with the contributor. Lex prepared and asked a series of questions that we could then edit in post-production later.

Before we filmed the interviews, Lex and I based on the script shot the front of the Harrisons Office in Gillingham. We used a tripod slider to capture the sign for when the promo starts, and a slow track backwards with a GoPro wide angle to capture the ending.

The client was more than happy to drive us to sites to capture footage for the piece. The sites we went to are as follows

·         Eurolink Sittingbourne

·         Redrow Sittingbourne

·         Midkent College

·         Cranford Close, Gillingham

Lex had a shot list that comprised of sliding shots, fixed static and handheld shots to catch a nice variation of shots for the edit. The tripod slider proved great in the shots and really brought the best out of the angles in question. Midkent College was a special shot as it was a GoPro mounted to a suction cup to the side of my car. This allowed us to get a nice wide angle flyover when the road was clear.

Unfortunately due to time constraints and access to the clients main office we were unable to retrieve any office shots, but based on the end product, it didn’t really need to benefit from office shots.