T2i What did I do wrong?!

[cap10kirk]

It was a vicious lesson I learned that night. But, it was a volunteer based crew, so I was gambling and lost.

I'm curious as to what would you do differently?

 

[Jordan Scott Price]

Even though I hear my voice asking, "Rolling sound?" with a polite, "Sound rolling." before the shot ... there was no sound. 5 takes in a ROW were not captured. Possibly 20 to 25% of the audio was not captured. On top of that, the H4N levels were too low.

I'd have something to say to your recordist.

"You're fired!"

 

[jonE5]

also your lighting (or lack of good lighting), is killing the overall look.

 

[Hawk Teflon]

I'm curious as to what would you do differently?

Well, I wouldn't have had him running audio, OR I would have met with him the day before and gone over all 2 buttons he needed to push (record and stop) for about an hour until he got that down. Two buttons ... pretty tricky, I guess.

I would have my AD hovering over him making sure the numbers weren't sitting at 00:00:00 when he was "rolling" until he got it.

I would have bumped the H4N's sensitivity up.

I would have had the Boom Op tighter in (working on The Jones', The BO always gets just out of frame ... I took that for granted it would happen here).

I would have called the Camera shop a week before when I did to rent the 11-16 (I had just been beat by someone else).

I would have been watching for moire.

If I COULD control it, I would have had more than one day to shoot, and more than a week to prep. That was unlikely, though, as it was just a random weekend off from TJ.


But now I know...

 

[Keeganxt]

 

[cap10kirk]

But now I know...

At least you are a smarter indie filmmaker because of this experience.