This week was really busy for every member of our crew. Our main work was still the documentary (Chinese version Discovery). We completed the shooting work of four destinations we made on our schedule.
On Monday and Tuesday, all our members stayed in company to sort out the footages we shot last week. We held meetings to summarize all the problems we met during the shooting process, and on the meeting we discussed our script for the documentary. I needed to write out one script for our story. Also, my director assigned me to continue the editing work for the American and Chinese Abacus Association Rewarding Ceremony. The chair for that association required our company to do a documentary for this whole story. The most important notion I wanted to mention was for campaigns shooting and reporting work, no matter how many cameras you used, you should make sure that they started at the same time and did not stop any one of them during the shooting process, this would release the editor’s burden during the editing work. The final documentary would also be displayed in different angels.
On Wednesday, we completed two shooting works, one was the California State University at Fullerton, the other was and Nixon Museum. On California State university campus, the first subject we selected was their new dormitory and Dinning hall, next was their educational equipments and security system. My editor told me these were the main focus for every school you wanted to work on in the future. That afternoon, we arrived at Nixon library and museum. The guide led our tour, this made our work much relaxed, since we had a clear timeline for this documentary. My director told me for most museums whose topic were people, they usually had a definite time line to record the whole life for the giants, what we did was just follow that timeline.
On Thursday, we arrived at Universal Studio in LA, this was the most famous scenic resort in LA which attracted thousands of tourist every day. We shot every section of this theme park, the biggest thing I got from the shooting process was you must stay in calm when you were in the flustered ambience. You must realize that you are not a tourist but a film worker.
On Friday, we filmed the Knott’s Barry Theme Park, this is another famous place in LA. There were so many exciting entertainment facilities liked roller coasters. Actually we did not take on these facilities to shot the image to protect our camera. But we still got various exciting footages and soundbite in this place. I addition, I realized that when the light condition was not ideal, we could use the filter to correct it.
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