Friday, 6 January 2012

Preparing to shoot on location

It’s important to plan before you go shoot film or audio for a number of reasons. Firstly you need to check the safety of a location before taking yourself and the equipment to that location. Secondly you need to check if the location is noisy so that you know if the audio will have very loud background noise that would ruin the quality of sound. Thirdly you need to check if the location fits the criteria of what you want to film. You could also have more time to think about what your filming where which would speed up the process.
If you do not plan before you shoot film or audio in a location you could end up with really bad background noise, which would ruin the sound. You could also end up hurting yourself and maybe damaging the equipment if you haven’t safety checked the location. If you don’t check the location before filming you could end up having a different location than you expected it to be which could ruin your film. Without planning its hard to create a shooting script.
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Before I filmed my weather report I would check that the weather wasn’t going to affect the sound so much that you couldn’t hear the reporter at all. I would also think about doing a wild track when the weather died down a bit to try and help hide unwanted background noise. I would also think about filming the weather report inside near a big window so that the audience could see the bad weather but still hear what the presenter was saying. 

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