What could possibly go wrong....
1. Two cameras, one SD card?
2. being told your steadycam operator has to walk backwards for quarter of a mile over various hazardous terrains to get the required shots?
3. The vocal speaker for the evening decides to do his speech somewhere completely different from where you discussed and have an elaborate lighting set up placed purposefully for?
4. A monumental crowd of people that are blocking a focal point you need to get in shot?
Yes ladies and gentlemen they all happened......
But with quick innovative thinking they were mear bumps in the schedule and were overcome with ease.
How we coped?
1. / 2 :
As UN Orthodox as it may be i decided that we switched SD cards from one to the other, once I simply couldn't not get anymore shots it was time to go mobile. As my positioning was static and my priority was to get the speech I focused on my goal. Knowing that Kieran (Steadycam) was to follow the parade I kept my camera rolling until the very last moment; till there was no more footage i could get. I then quickly passed Kieran the SD card. Leaving the drill hall via seperate doors only to meet up again to support and guide him over a pre planned route (in-reverse by the way) that we would take to stay directly in front of the parade.
3/ 4 :
After placing a lighting setting up near the shield monument that was to be removed and paraded and mic'ing Mr. Needham who was to deliver a speech near the shield. Late on it became knowledge that due to the crowds he was going to stand on a crate in the opposite side of the hall. We had to act quickly as it was only 10mins till the speech... so I suggested we get a high vantage point. As a team we constructed a high podium using tables from which i could get the required shot of the speech. knowing there was an electrical point near to the new position from the floor plan i had scribed earlier that day. I grabbed a dedo light and backlit the position. So to get the best shot in what is a very dimley lit building. This got us out of one tight spot but posd another problem as I could not get a clear view of the shield and the ceremonial removal of it from the wall. Kieran could not pass through the crowd. Knowing that James often carries a 'flipcam' and ilze had a stills camera. The two of them gathered amongst the crowd to get reacon shots and close ups which could replace the footage lost by the primary camera. Although again not overly athodox but this kind of quick thinking allows you to optimise everyone so creativly come post-production you still have images and footage to work with rather than settling for nothing. Failing that a mobile phone would have surficed.
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