One of my college projects was to create a promotional video for a local event that goes on. I chose to do mine about a conference in North Wales on raising awareness, acceptance and understanding of autism spectrum disorders. This is a conference that happens every year at Glyndwr University and my aim was to make a film promoting this annual conference to make people in the area aware of it.
A few weeks before the event, a list was made of all the things I needed to do and have in terms of this film. I had to get in touch with the person who organised it. We also needed to book equipment like tripods, at least one extra camera (I intended on bringing my own one as well), a voice recorder, memory cards as well as extra batteries. I also needed to get permission from my tutor for that day to be excused from the classroom. I also needed another student or two to help out with the filming on the day. I aimed to film the guest speakers and interview people at the event as well as record general things that went on at the conference. I also had to think about the kind of shots I wanted to have of the guest speakers and the people being interviewed.
On the day of the conference, we had most of what was needed ready. One of the fellow students, Tanith volunteered to help with the filming for the day. I brought my own camera and we also hired another camera from the college as well as the voice recorder, tripods and more. Everything was ready so we set out to Glyndwr. I took different shots of the public speakers giving their talks including close up shots, wide shots and mid shots. Tanith took different shots of the audience and their reactions to the talks.
I also got permission to do interviews on camera with a few of the guest speakers. I wrote down few questions which I asked each of the speakers. I recorded them answering with a different location for each person. While I used the camera, Tanith used the voice recorder which we tried really hard to keep out of shot.
My personal assistant Philip did some recording of the outside the building and of the people attending the conference chatting and having fun. It was a good day and the event was definitely worth attending.
We’re hoping to do an interview with Angie (the manager of the conference) to get the important information like about what inspired her to ru the conference and that kind of thing.
I have already started editing the footage even though I haven’t got that far into it yet. The times when I get to work on my own projects are my favorite in the whole course.
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