I'd done my recce the day before filming, Chris had his decks set up in his room so we were to film there. Although he had to fit into a small gap between his desk and the wall, the location checked out pretty well. the lighting was great and there was a huge space to set up my tripod to face the decks. I planned to set the tripod in front of Chris while I filmed from the side to get a closer look at the decks but that's not what ended up happening! Here's a look at the side shot I had planned...
On the day of filming it took me around an hour to set up the tripod camera till I realised that if I left it alone it would tilt upwards, so I had to abandon the use of it. I ended up getting behind the decks next to Chris and filming the decks. This actually proved to be the best method cos the focus should really be on the decks as he's explaining the buttons, features and techniques. I filmed an intro and outro using the tripod because I could actually control it. I placed an Edirol R09 microphone on the desk to record the sound and it proved to be a lot better than the internal mic on the mini-DV camcorder. For all the continuity geeks out there you can blatently see the R09 at the head of the mixer sometimes...
I enjoyed working with Chris, he was quite a natural performer, and although I had asked if he wanted to script his lines beforehand he was much happier to just explain things off the top of his head, which proved to be great because the explanations are very clear, and clarity is the key to a good instructional video!
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