General work experiance

Today i did not work at the festival as i was helping my cousin Matthew with his filming work.

Heres what he was asked to do:

He was asked by his boss at the Haverhill sports and lesiure centre to film an acceptance speach for the upcoming sports awards event this sunday. The person that he was asked to film / give the certificate to was a woman called Barbara Levrett, whom is a cycling gold medalist. Also matts boss wanted him / me to take a few photos for the local Haverhill Echo Newspaper.

Due to the fact that my cousin did not have any recording equipment or tripod he was unable to record the acceptance speach, so therefore that is why he decided to ask me to help him film it today.

The day begun when he picked me up at 9am, we then traveled to Haverhill sports and lesuire center where Matt collected the flowers, cheque and certificate ready to hand over to Barbara. After doing this we then drove to a nearby village where Barbara lives. we arrived at her house at around 11ish, and was all set up and ready to record the speach by 11.30am.

During the first shoot of the acceptance speach Barbara was a little nervous and messsed up her lines, so therefore we had to re-take the video again, on the 2nd video it went well.

Eventually on the 2nd time round we got a perfect video shot, and it lasted just under 1 minute. Once we had succesfully filmed the acceptance speach we decided to ask Barbara to stand outside of her house for the photos. (for the Haverhill Echo). We handed Barbara the flowers and her certificate and asked her to stand in front of her flowers whilst wearing her gold medal aswell. We decided to use that back drop / background as the flowers worked well with barbaras cycling costume and made her stand out in the photo.

Once we had completed the photos and videos, we packed away my equipment and we headed off back to the lesuire centre. Once we got back there it was nearly 2pm. my cousin told his boss that he had done the shoot and was just going to come back to mine so we could edit the footage and photos ready for sunday.

When we got back to my house after getting some dvds from sainsburys (DVD-R'S) (for placing the video footage onto dvd) it had gone passed 3pm. We straight away set to work on editing the video and photos.

We first had to take the footage off the camera and place it onto the computer. This task was a simple drag and drop task and did not take more than 5 mins for us to do.

Once we had the footage onto the desktop we dragged and dropped the video into adobe premier elements, where i then edited the footage into a suitable sequence length which was under 1 minute long. I also needed to edit out a few audio glithces such as volume levels going up and down needed leveling out and to make sure it was all at the same volume.

Once i had completed the audio i started editing the actual video footage, which was a harder task as i needed to edit the levels of contrast and brigtness exactly and that was quite hard as the sunsine was changing angles in the shot when clouds passed by etc, but i eventually got it done.

When i completed the project i burnt it to DVD for my cousin to take to the awards event on sunday, i also burnt a 2nd copy for my cousin to pass over to Barbara.

I also transferred th editited photos onto my cousins laptop for him to email to the Haverhill echo, to hopefully be published in there next sunday / monday.

Overall this task was very time consuming but was very fun to do, and i gained much experiance from it, such as people skills and organisational skills have improved a great deal from doing this task, we were working from 9- 5ish today on this task. (8 hours)

Here are some stills from the video and also the images / photos for the Newspaper: