It’s been a few years now since I’ve been on a video shoot. I studied media production at university and worked for a while as a runner at a TV company so I was feeling pretty confident about the whole thing.
‘I’m pretty good with this stuff’ I thought ‘I know the score’. But while we were setting up, I took a quick scan of the kit and quickly realised I had very little idea what I was looking at. Fortunately, the crew, being seasoned video-veterans knew exactly what to do and managed to get set up in a way that was somehow both casual and militarily efficient.
Despite this efficiency, video production is littered with challenges that I had all but almost forgotten. Here are the main things that struck me.
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