Studio Day

Today was a studio day, and it was brilliant. I always really enjoy myself when I'm in there, and personally I think that my whole seminar group geton really well and create a nice relaxed atmosphere to work in.
Since working as director and presenter on the very first week, I have worked on sound, and camera. Today I did lighting in the morning and camera again in the afternoon. I think I tried to give myself a bit of a break after the stress of being the first ever director of the group. I really enjoyed doing sound last time and found it easy to get a good hold of. Today's lighting was also really easy, as it's all about mixing boards which I'm really familiar with. Also, dressing the set and arranging the lighting was light work (mainly because the hard work had been done by Ken and the other group the day before). Although I enjoy doing camera, after watching back the piece we filmed I've found that it's harder than it looks to get a good shot, especially with the framing of everything, and cutting people's limbs off - not good. Maybe that needs a bit more work...
Now, next time we have a studio day we have to have seperate directors and producers for the morning and afternoon shoots - the morning consisting of a simple shoot of a 3 minute musical number to be used as an interval instead of adverts (no post-production), and the afternoon consisting of the gameshow "Who Wants to Remain a Millionaire?". Now I'd actually really like to direct again: after watching a lot of other people have a go and with different degrees of ability I think I've managed to learn differnet things from different people. From Richie I learnt that you have to take control, and from Chris I learnt not to take too much. From Andy I learn to delegate and communicate. From Sica I learnt to keep my cool, and from James I learnt to make the show, not watch it.
Other than directing, I'd quite like to do VT Ops, mainly because today I say it done well, and I saw it done bad. I'd like to think I could do it well, so would like a stab at that too... Other than that I'm not to fussed. I find I'm quite laid back on studio days - must be somethims in the air, like in airplanes (always makes you yawn doesn't it?).
I also really like Jonathan & Ken. I like the way that they teach. Their relaxed style keeps me calm and I think sets the mood, although still manage to make sure we buck up at the necessary moments (for example, when we actually have to start recording despite the fact we haven't got everyone in the studio...).


Narrative Non-Assessed Shoot

So yesterday we filmed our third piece, & I think it went really well. The location was good and helped a lot with lighting. The guys looked awesome in their costumes & it was so much fun having extra stage make-up help on hand for the final shots. Although we had a few tantrums I think taking Lizzie's approach to the problem made it a lot easier for me to deal with it.
I'm editing the piece to hopefully it'll turn out as good as the other pieces!

Peace love & joy to all!