Story-telling + Workshop | Crossing the Line + Cameras 3 (12th October 2016)

After learning about the 180° rule, it was time to put this into practice, and so after being given a script about the subject, we were tasked with shooting the conversational piece, taking this rule into consideration - this was also our first time shooting with a boom microphone.

This was our first shoot involving the boom mic, and it was interesting to see how much the direction the mic is facing affects what we can hear when mixing, since I am not used to using directional microphones.  As we were in groups, each producing our own video, we were limited by time, but this also meant we could each try being behind the camera and operating the boom mic, which I was responsible for on most of the shoots.

Here is what I produced, with the help of Jacob with the boom mic, and Katie and Jason acting:

We were limited by the amount of time we had, so this isn't exactly my best work, but it was good practice for taking the 180° rule into consideration when planning shots.  This was also useful in that it was our first experience in using the boom microphones, since we were working on a conversational piece.