Week three. Feb 20th-24th

Unfortunately our trip to the Iman Casings' plant in Ballyhaunis was cancelled due to an unexpected audit. We have re-scheduled for 27th February. We intend to now, use the time to make a video for Safefood 360 which focuses on reselling their software to food safety consultants, who will use the software under their own brand with the software showing the consultants logo.

Barry is involved in creating logos for Safefood 360, under a generic guise as Food Safety Software. If the reselling partners don't wish to have their own logo on the software, they will be using this one.

This video project will consist of an on-camera presentation by George Howlett, with Lauren Walsh doing a narration for some of our footage. We will be taking some footage of the new office showing extra staff dealing with the day to day running of the business.

Lauren Walsh

We both took video footage of the new office, using staff from other offices in the building to give the impression of a full office. I used the tripod to shoot slow-paced pan shots of the busy office while Barry focused on hand-held footage of close-up inserts.

 

On Thursday we did the interview with George in an upstairs meeting room,

 as we thought it would be a nice, quiet room to record in.

    We recorded the sound using a Zoom H1 Handy Recorder. I set up the large TV screen behind me, as I was videoing him face-on. The TV was to be used as an auto cue. I asked George to change the pronunciation of some of the words so they would be understood by people for whom English is not their first language. 

When we reviewed this footage we were not happy with it because the location which looked fine at the time, looked too disjointed from the Safefood 360 offices. We decided that these scenes should be taken again in the Safefood 360 offices where George Howlet is speaking from his office chair with his computer behind him and with the software on screen. We tested this location out with lighting and cameras to see how it would look. Firstly I got Barry to sit in George's chair to see how to frame this shot. Then I sat in the chair so Barry could take a look. We tried the shots with lighting and without lighting.

George's Desk

Barry at desk

Martin at desk

We recorded Lauren for some of the narration.

  We used a Zoom H1n Handy Recorder and an Olympus Digital Audio Recorder. This time Barry imported the sound files to Reaper so that he could choose the best takes,and enhance the sound.

Reaper Software