As one of our first assignments, Double R interns have to shoot our 30-second elevator speech about ourselves and then a 30-second elevator speech about the company. After that we have to edit our best takes from both shoots together, which seems easy right? Wrong! Well kind of. Not to mention, all of this should be done by the end of this week. My fellow interns and I shot our speeches about ourselves, last week, which seemed fine, besides the obvious uncomfortable speaking in front of the camera. We initially thought it was good, but when we reviewed the footage we noticed a few things wrong with the videos. One being the sound wasn’t right, the lighting was wrong due to our camera settings and more. So, we had to film again, but this time we made sure the lighting and sound was good. After filming for the second time and reviewing the footage with Paul Jamali, editor and videographer, he noticed something while helping us with another problem. He pointed out how the position of the camera was off and different in each take. On top of that, he noticed a smudge on the footage that we didn’t realize at first, why because Paul is a pro and we’re here as interns trying to learn Double R’s great ways. That all happened last week, now fast forward to Tuesday, we’ve attempted to film again for the THIRD time. And as well all know, the third time’s the charm. As we all got ready to film our elevator speech (which is only the first part) we all realized, the tripod that we’ve been using all week was gone. We had to figure out what to do because Rosemary and Paul are out of town for a shoot. Thankfully we found another tripod to use. So we re-filmed our speech, without any smudges and a weirdly positioned camera and successfully filmed the first part of our elevator speeches. Now, we have to film our Double R speech with a black backdrop, which should be a little easier or so we hope. But these hiccups have all came with lessons, which I’m grateful for. I’ve mainly learned, to check your lighting and sound at least twice and make sure the lens is clean. Also, make sure you’ve had all your questions answered before the videographer leaves for a shoot.
-Brianna
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