Please write about an experience with a project HERE AT THE CREATIVE ACADEMY in which you prepared for your work but then had to pivot to accommodate circumstances that you did not predict. Tell us about the assignment parameters, your plan for the project, how you set about accomplishing it, and what the unforeseen circumstances were that you had to adapt to. Lastly, how did the project turn out, and how did it compare to your original plan.
For our visual media class, we had to shoot a documentary of our own chosen interest. I decided to film a short doc on my friend who runs the Peddling Relief Project, whose mission is food rescue through working with food banks to deliver food to those in most need. So, I setup up a day to do interviews with him. Because of the location and season, there just wasn’t enough natural lighting to shoot it in the office building. So, I decided to find a space outside even though there was a lot of noise.
Initially, I was planning on placing a lav mic on the subject for the primary audio source and use a shotgun mic as the secondary with a camera placed at a different angle. After setting up the lav, I realized that I forgot to insert the small microsd card before leaving so that rendered that useless. And so we went with the shotgun mic. After reviewing my footage, for some reason my shotgun didn’t record at all which was strange since I placed in new batteries. So, I had to use the cameras internal mic as the primary audio source.
Yeah, it wasn’t ideal but I was able to at least get audio for the interview, although it wasn’t the best sound. I was able to tweak and isolate the voice just enough that there wasn’t too much background noise and didn’t sound too hollow. The project turned out fine as I had a really awesome b-roll after shooting for 2 days but man, sometimes things just turn out as planned even with your backup!