Our first day of recording is behind us. Six hours of preparing and filming and all that hard work was nearly ruined. But fortunately it was a success... If I only knew how to act.
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| Natalie Kruijen, Niels Dijkstra, Alex van Hoogstraten, Omar Salem, and Manuel Schiesser |
Was a touch day. First rearranging all the furniture in my livingroom, setup up lights and reflectors, grime, costuming, and than you start filming. Kind of discouraging when you realize how hard it is just to remember a few lines of dialogue, but he pulled through. And all that work was nearly ruined. Why? Audio recording on the camera failed. Don't know why. Just did. So, check you recordings after each take kids. Could save you a lot of frustration.
But fortunately, it was not an issue. I used my trusty NT-1 Studio Mic for external recording because I knew the Shotgun Mic would not sound great. Use a lavelier mic, plugged in a mobile phone or laptop, or use you USB Mic just to be sure when recording. It saved us a lot of hassle, and probably prevented us ragequieting. It was annoying that we had to control the NT-1 mic from my PC in a other room, and there are some interesting words on the recording for our cameraman, Omar, who is in the process of learning Dutch but in the end it saved the entire days work and superior sound to boot.
Apart from that it was a great learning experience. Natalie Kruijen had her directing debut, I guess I served as producer(?) and did some of the sound editing so Bryan Oliver, who created the Tales of a Broken reality project can start preparing the episode itself.
Next week the second, and final, day of filming. Hope everything will go as planned and the weather cooperates.
Tales of a Broken reality is Steampunk inspired Youtube Channel, run by Bryan Oliver, that tells the tales of a Multiverse being controlled by dark forces.
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