Filming at Komedia

Last night Keiran, Patrick, Carlina and myself were at Komedia Bath to do some filming with Mike Johnston for some music students.
It was the 2nd year girls doing a showcase of songs in 3x45min sets of 4 or 5 girls all seated and playing acoustic.
The stage was not much about floor level and the cafe venue on the whole was quite small, we had one camera positioned by the bar which was used for close up shots and one on the opposite side at the back of the seating to capture the wide shot. This 2nd camera at the back also captured the sounds directly from the monitor.

The filming went very smoothly, there were only a couple of issues. At one point one the close up camera ran out of battery with about 10mins to go in one set so there was pressure on the wide to capture footage that would look okay by itself. The only other thing that caused problems was sometimes because of the placement of speakers the view of the singer was obstructed from one camera so at times we just had to capture audience shots whilst the other camera focused on the performer.

It was a fun experience and was good to work with Mike again (felt like a first year again :P) and we shall be editing on Wednesday!