During this weeks studio session we were finally able to film our prototype and gather footage that we have planned to edit at a later date. It was a seemingly daunting task as during the previous week it had taken 5 hours to produce 2 prototypes and this week our class had to manage to produce 3 within the allotted time.

Therefore, I arrived as early as I could! I was anxious to get to work setting up the space to mirror that of the studio floor plan I had created. This involved getting the high rises from the back where all the props are kept and gathering sandbags to keep it stable. I also removed the black background to allow the green screen to be put into position.

Once that was completed our camera crew for the day then began to arrive and I relocated myself to the position of vision switcher to help our group’s director, Alex, make sure all the camera angles we wanted were present and accounted for.

We did have some issues with the green screen initially as we couldn’t remove the background noise and whilst recording, Roie’s (our talent) microphone began to produce some very unpleasant noises during filming. However, these issues were quickly resolved by Ruth and the studio techs.

Overall, the filming for the prototype was a successful one. Roie was a good choice of talent and everyone else in the studio was both understanding, professional and most importantly patient.

I believe we had learnt a lot from the previous week as we watched the groups deal with time management issues and we were eager to keep the speed of the production as fast as possible in order to allow for the other groups to go ahead and complete their own prototypes.