For research I had watched different Vox Pops videos, one was based what is the best location to find people. One was how to keep the conversations flowing. Final was all do with creating an interview set.
The location me and my partner decided to film our Vox Pops was actually in the same studio room as my podcast. The reason why I decided to work their again, because it was an isolated location which made it easier for use to film the individuals without capturing background noise.
Me and my partner had two roles between us, he was a the sound recorder which meant he had to film the sound using a boom microphone. Me and Jordan managed to work really well with great communication skills, Jordan would stand close to the candidates to make sure the microphone was positioned well. My role was to also make sure the camera was levelled with the candidates to have the framing to be successful. I had to count to 3 out loud to let Jordan know I was about to record. That way we would both would have in sync recordings from both sides together.
I was a director and needed to film using a black magic camera. I disliked using the black magic camera at first because it was a struggle to set up the actual camera to begin filming your content. The camera just had a series of play, record, rewind, stop and Pause button. To change the settings you would have to mainly do it on the screen, this did make the production feel time consuming as I am used to filming with a Cannon camera which does have manual settings outside of the camera. However the black magic was a lot better in terms of the footage I had gathered afterwards.
I had to ask only one question to each candidate who participate in the Vox pop which was only three people. The question was “What camera would you use to record a movie?” The reason why I asked n was to help brand new media students in the future to understand what would be the best camera equipment is recommend the most.
In terms of editing the footage I had use Premium pro, the reason why I had decided to use this software was the amount of features which was easy to find and use. It had a category of Editing, colour, graphics and more and these tools helped make the content look visually professional which I would recommend to other users. I found it challenging with the sound been in separate files, I had to make sure each sound was in sync with the individuals voices.
Elijah Thompson 