We did our filming on February 12th. The session lasted for about 7 and a half hours and was our only session we recorded in. I arrived at Joe's for about 11, an hour before the "actors" were told to arrive. This hour was to set up the web cam, and film some brief example shots in Joe's bedroom.
Our actors started to arrive around 12, so after their head shots were taken, it was time to start filming.
Joe also supplied several "nerd shirts" for our actors in case they weren't wearing one.
We started filming with Nathan's interview. This was one of the harder interviews to film, as it was the first one and we couldn't stop laughing, although final footage was good.
Filming started off well, and we were confident for a good session.
Next was Sean for his interview, Sean had bought some of his own props, and these were comedic so we aloud him to wear them. Sean added a fairly posh voice for his character and this was also comedic so we let him do so for the rest of the time. We filmed about 3 clips of Sean's first interview.
After taking a short break to watch the clips to see if they were of standard, it was time to film Joe. Joe had a funny shot where he had to storm off swearing after saying how peaceful gaming can be, which we hope portrays the irony we were trying to capture.
So after about an hour, filming was going very well and Joe and I were looking forward to trying some more advanced shots.
It was then my time to be filmed, and we altrered this shot quite a bit, as we wanted to add more irony. So we took about 5 or 6 clips filming this as we had to find an approiate joke for this shot.
Once again, another short break was taken to check footage, and Joe did a quick little vlog to summarise the first part of this session.
The fifth interview was Luis, he was fairly shy of being on camera and we couldn't blame him, but he did well and acted like a proper "nerd".
The final interview we wanted to film was George, which wasn't actually an interview but trying to find george for an interview. Adding more random humour to our film hopefully.
We then stop for a lunch break for about 45 minutes then resumed filming on a HYDC round table discussion. I liked filming this sequence as it had a really smooth 360 shot that Joe and I did, but unfortunately, I don't think we can use this sequence in our opening becuase it is too long.
Then came probably the hardest thing we shot. Joe and I had several different ideas on how we wanted the "actors" to answer the question "have you ever had a girlfriend?"
We tried a sequence were the first person who was interviewed, Nathan, repeated the question and looked confused, then it cuts to the other "nerds" looking confused like they had been asked that question.
We also tried a shot where it panned around the room looking at all the nerds being confused, but this was hard as their was no way that Joe or I could pan the camera and still be in the shot in our places.
The final idea was to set the camera up on its own, and have all of use sit on the settee and say girlfriend and looked confused at each other. This was extremely hard to film! We were all having fun with this one, not knowing when to say girlfriend and generally just messing up. In the end, we had about 12 minutes of footage for this one shot.
Joe and I then also wanted to capture some more footage in case we wanted to use it. So we tried a shto where Joe answers the door to let us all in, just in case we wanted it and also Joe and I did a little sequence of Joe getting out of bed at 5 in the afternoon, then going downstairs and letting us straight in.
It would probably have some better editing and variation of shots if we use these two clips, and add more variation then just interview after interview.
At about 6 in the evening, filming was finished and it was time to say goodbye to our actors after a great filming session.
Unfortunately though, later that evening Joe told me that the 7 and a half hours of footage from the web cam we had in the corner of the room didn't save, which wasn't too bad, but we had some plans to edit that together and add some unique footage in the blog. Wasn't a real problem though.
Overall, the recording session went really well, we got loads of clips we can use and we had a really good laugh recording, so hopefully our end product is the same.
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