Sunday, March 6, 2011

Doorknob Weekend Recap and Important Realization

Hey All,
So this weekend seems to have been a big weekend for everyone, shooting their doorknobs. Our group, (Alyssa, Matt, and I) did really well overall with our shoots. Saturday we really lucked out with the weather in the afternoon and got one out of our two outdoor scenes completed. Today we shot the opening and ending scenes, which was actually really good because of the weather.

We did run into a small glitch though concerning audio for one scene. For some reason our mic wasn't working in the beginning, we caught it right away thankfully, and were able to fix it. This does bring up a really important point. A lot of the xlrs from ppecks don't seem to work or are bad. There is a way to check this though BEFORE leaving ppecks. They have an xlr tester on the desk by the center computer, and its actually a really good idea to check the cables this way so that when your on set and ready to start shooting you don't realize that the cable is bad and you won't have any audio.

1 comment:

arturo said...

Excellent comment. You are responsible to check the equipment before you shoot. Don't assume that because someone at PPECKS has checked it (or anywhere else where you might rent equipment) it is going to be OK. I'm glad you were able to detect and fix the problem on time.
Also great tip on the XLR tester, I did not know they had one. I will use it from now on.

As for the weather it was great for some and bad for others!. For me it was good because I needed snow for my scene, although at the end we got a lot more than we bargained for:-)