Phil Peel

Well though this had been in planning for a year, I has only involved as the OB multicamera director just before the event.  We first met up down at the Guildhall Square a few days before.

With 5 stages, 8 cameras, vt play in and 10,000 people, this was going to be quite a complicated operation. So we did a lot of walking around measuring and in particular working out the comms and talkback. Who could talk to whom and how.  As the sound towers had to go up before the screens arrived, but needed to be as close as possible, where exactly should they be placed?

So lots of lists and diagrams.

Friday.

Beautiful weather. The truck arrives and the crew spend some time negotiating it’s way through the clutter.

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Just completed a very intermittent tech rehearsal. Marred by drunks. But I suppose it’s to be expected in a city centre in the UK on a hot Thursday night.  Still all roughly sorted for tomorrow.

Ok I’ve completed the Gym and Pool scene for “One Step” Sasha’s play about an amputee.

We shot this in a few hours at the Trouville Hotel in Bournemouth.

My aim was to have lots of moving tracking shots, but the mirrors meant I kept getting us in the shots, so it ended up rather more static than I  intended.

I tried out some new techniques for getting moving shots over water. I think they worked quite well.  Mike lit it and we shot on a Pentax DSLR and a Panasonic. It was very hot in the gym, but we didn’t have any condensation problems.

Actors were Sasha, Sean and Lewis, who seemed to act out enjoying themselves very well.

This got over 1700 hits in the first day on Youtube.

Very good to use. More info to come on using the camera.

It’s been a long day shooting, then 6 hours editing till 1am.   gosh that’s 17 hours.

Another long day tomorrow with two filming jobs.