The Biscardi Creative Media crew spent the day at SACS-COC headquarters working in concert with Interactive Advantage Corporation (IAC) on a new interactive training project. While the concept was pretty straightforward, a couple of on-screen scenarios, our intrepid Director of Photography, Marion Laney brought a full field production kit to ensure everything was recorded perfectly for the editing process. We also had to make sure what we produced fit with the needs of the interactive final product.
In particular the first scenario involved 6 on camera talent all talking at the same time. Marion brought 6 microphones and a 6 channel audio recorder so each person’s audio can be individually adjusted in the editing process. This makes it a lot easier when trying to trim a 45 minute raw recording to the 15 minutes required for the training element. We can extract and remove individual audio elements when we have 6 individual audio recordings rather than all 6 people in a single stereo file. That will give IAC much more flexibility in creating the final interactive training product.
The crew utilized one large conference room space to set up both the 6 person discussion and a one on one scenario making for greater efficiency in the one day shoot. All the equipment was kept in one room minimizing the amount of time it took to re-set everything for the two scenes. Also the use of fluorescent lighting eliminates the worry of high powered lighting tripping circuit breakers.
All those video and audio cables coming from the cameras feed two virtual video recorders in perfect synchronization allowing for easier editing later.
All video and audio was fed to two virtual video recorders allowing very high quality video recording and easy synchronization of the two cameras during the editing process. Ever the “gadget guru” Marion had clips, ties, straps and every other device to hold microphones, lights and even cables cleanly in place.
All in all it was a very successful and very efficient day. The IAC team provided excellent direction to ensure the video elements will work seamlessly in the interactive final training product. The SACS COC team was an absolute blast to work with, they had us in stitches in between takes. Now it’s on to Post Production and working closely with IAC to bring all the elements to life in a very large interactive training product.
The two virtual digital recorders can be seen on the left side of the photo. The monitor is displaying one of the camera feeds.
Some technical nitty gritty in case you want to know:
Cameras used: Panasonic P2 HVX-300(2) and a Sony EX-1
Virtual Recorders: AJA KiPro and the AJA KiPro Mini, both set to record at ProResLT
Lighting: Assorted Lowel Fluorescents
Audio Recorder: 6 Channel Zoom
Post Production: Will be performed with the Adobe Creative Suite.