First Video
Today I finished directing my first televion project. It was amazing. It was exhausting. It was wonderful. And of course it’s not over. Many hours of post-production await me and my fine video team.
We set up a complete three-camera studio at Berkeley Friends Church in order to tape Quaker Heritage Day. We put the control room out in the narthex, and let the church sound system take care of the sound, which it does quite will without much intervention. If there’s anything really bad about this production, it’ll probably be the sound, and that would be, ironically, because the sound system is so good — it might have made us complacent. We were very sloppy about miking the speakers and teaching them how to use the equipment.
Many thanks to Berkeley Community Media for the use of their equipment, and for lending us intern Myriam Beltran, who did a superb job on camera 3.
We hope to have this thing ready for cablecast by mid-April. Our next project: a training video for conscientious objectors. Watch this space!