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SMRC Knockhill round 2

06/05/2018 

Brief to film and produce highlights of the each of the 14 races for the SMRC media content. 

we arrived at 8am on the morning of the race giving us a 3 hour set up time. each camera position was maned by the same team as last racing meeting making the set up run smother as everyone new there roles and positions. My camera position was was camera2/5 as this was a reverse directions week at knockhill. i had the JVC with manual lens and the set up i used was ND 1/4 manual aperture 5.6-8 and full focal length. the shutter speed original set at 500 but i chose to go down to 250/1 the temp used was 500k. This provided a superb true color. 

conclusion: As this was the second racing meeting we has a production team had a meeting the previous week to discus problems with communication and break times as well as technical issues with other camera teams. This meant that problems i faces such as batter life and breaks we satisfied anther last minute decision made was to swap camera 4 jvc for a Panasonic giving the jvc uses extra battery each. this proved a great solution as i was needing an extra battery by the end of the day. without this extra battery. 

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Melrose Uni 7s

university 7s tournament Melrose RFC 1st April

The shoot a multi-camera shoot that consisted of 3 cameras feeding the live stream within the press box, this included a replay system feeding the live stream via a macbook. all games would be filmed but not steamed live. 

i was tasked with operating the tight angel camera as well as taking control of the replay system at certain points 

cons Melrose is a very old and historic ground so there was no specific  locations for camera positions. using the seating benches we maneuvered the tripod spreeders in between gaps in the seating as well as using bricks to weigh the tripods down. for extra stability. our next problem was feeding the SDI cables up to the press box above us. we did this by using the roof pilers to out advantage buy rapping the cables around them keeping out of the public way and taping down excess cabling. 

conclusions As the melrose ground is very old its difficult to position our cameras in a suitable position i would like to see small staging supplied so we may set up away from the stand giving us more flexibility with cam positions. anther conclusion would be the introduction of a longer cable that would give us the ability to film from the opposite side of the pitch.