Production - Practice For Production Day

 Introduction 

Hello and welcome back, today I will be sharing how my production practice went with my partner. In my second to last blog I mentioned how me and my partner planned on testing our equipment together before film day. Well today me and Noemy (my partner)  went over to her house after school because all three packages had arrived. We unboxed the items together and then looked over each item one by one and then practiced using the equipment together.

Microphones 

We unboxed the microphones and all the pieces were there, the instruction were quite long though but using this piece of equipment was quite easy. We charged both mics and then tried using them and it worked. The microphones definitely made the phone audio better and more focused. 

The only thing I struggled with was remembering what the lights meant because both microphones and connector to the phone had these little lights that would indicate separate things like if the mic was stable  red and the connector was a stable green light it meant they were connected and their was many different combinations that meant different things so this meant we had to carry the instruction for the microphones with us.

Stabilizer

This item arrived in pieces that we had to put together, it was quite simple and the instructions weren’t very long because we just had to connect the pieces and in order for it to hold your phone you would put it horizontally and tighten the grip in the middle frame. 

We did notice that the picture taking button on the frame did not work so we tried rereading instructions to fix it but we weren’t able to get it working, luckily we don’t think this we effect our filming so we aren’t too worried about that. Me and Noemy recorded this flower from her yard to try the stabilizer out while filming and trying to zoom in while holding the frame since there isn’t a feature for that on the frame. Below is the video.

Light

The light attachment came in one piece and had in depth instructions, I was able to figure it out quite quickly and I don’t think I’ll need to look over the instructions again on filming day but of course we will bring it just in case. It arrived charged and has a long battery life so I doubt we will have to recharge for filming day but I plan on bringing my portable charger just in case. 

The lights worked great and we liked that we were able to easily attach the light to our frame by screwing it in. On the frame it felt very secure and we tried a couple settings on my partners sleeping cat as shown below. The first picture (top left) is our control group, the picture was taken without any light, just the phone and stabilizer, the second picture (top right) was taken without any light the white light attachment came 100%. The third photo ( bottom left ) is taken with an orangey color I scrolled to find at 100% and the last photo (bottom right) is taken without any that same color but 50%.

We also practiced a couple shots like the jump for example with our equipment, the jump can be seen below.

Conclusion 

Me and my partner feel pretty confident in our equipment and this has helped us feel more prepared for filming tomorrow. We will make sure to charge everything and bring it and we will use our production timeline to stay on track, it nice to see things coming together after the thought and work we’ve put into this so thank you for reading and see you tomorrow to let you know how filming went.