Bath Rugby

Last week I helped Rob out doing filming for Bath Rugby, we got to use their equipment which was refreshing as I found their tripod a lot easier to use than the ones we have at the Uni! They had two Sony Handycams and a tripod. We had to film Kate the clubs media manager interviewing Coach Steve Meehan. We decided to place one camera on the tripod which I volunteered to operate since I was quite nervous, Rob used the other camera to film cutaway shots.

In the editing stage I was quite embarrassed looking at what I'd filmed, I did a lot of panning between Kate and Steve I think it would have been best to leave the camera focused on Steve. None of the zooms or pans that I did were particularly smooth and a lot of times there was no cutaway footage to use to cover it because Rob changed the location of where he was filming quite often.

The final product wasn't bad, David who is the other media manager seemed happy with the footage, however we all agreed that next time we shoot an interview we should use a 2 camera set up, one for each person. There's a work placement that students can apply for to do this job every week, I know Reuben is applying and other people on the course might be as well so good luck to them!

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