Skills I need to do FMP

03/05/16

The skills I need to do my FMP include:

• Communication skills: Eye contact, straightforward clear communication, open questions to know more and serious but friendly expressions. I do feel confident in using these skills.
• Camera skills: Checking equipment, framing, lighting (stabilising shutter speed), audio (I want to improve my skill by handling the boom kit) and angle (I shouldn't make the camera be pointed straight at the interviewee.)
• Interview Skills: Location (it should be relevant to the subject), goals (I want to hear the opinions about statistics), questions (as openly possible and plan them out), flow (the order of the flow of the questions) and medium (whether it is audio/video or written, to not use interjections like "Uh-huh" in audio interviews to keep the tape clean.) I have a wingman to help me with the interview video. I have to learn avoid obsessing over every single detail and quality. I may need to revisit some questions that may have not been answered. Work up the interviewee. Endure awkward silences and be prepared to tell about their process.

This was researched from this article.

Testing audio recorder

In my previous events with A Knight for a Call, there were some issues, such as the wind. It caused a disturbance in recording the dialogue. Due to that we decided to do a test before the actual filming day. We were testing out the mounted microphone on the camera, because using separate audio boom kit and then trying to sync it up to the recorded video will be complicated. Our first take was that the camera didn't had a memory card and I didn't turn on the mic, so we did it again but we had a few outtakes, due to me getting tongue-tied and started laughing a lot, before we perfected the final mock interview.