reflection on candid cabaret

So on Sunday night i went along to the oran more to film Candid Cabaret. The class seemed generally exited about the opertunity of filming the Musical theatre students and they didnt let us down. Each act was very differant and equally as talanted. Next year ill go along just to watch as i enjoyed the atmosphere and the performances very much. The building and interior of the oran more as well was so pretty and quirky so it was nice to be in such a good looking venue.

The first thing we did was get a de-breifing from Ray on how the hole thing was going to run.
I was exited but nervouse about what camera i was going to be put on. In the end i found myself on the side vue camera which was a position i had wanted so it was all good.

We had several mishaps with BNC cables breaking and cables not being long enough but in the end we settled down and just worked with what we had and what was working, it felt good to have some obsticles and be able to get over them as a team. Flick helped me set up the camera and we did it swiftly finding even without notes we could calobrate vuefinders and set colour temp etc. this i was proud of because i fret over notes and it seemed in this case that they were not needed.

So whaen the performances started there were a few problems : mainly i kept forgetting that i couldnt dance along with the pan handle because the whole camera would also be dancing along! lets hope they dont need my shots for the times i was doing that. Next i felt that my camera positing wasn't quite right as my frame was framed by two large pillers which created havoc when performers went into the crowd and moved around to much.
The biggest mistake i made was to lock of to tightly, at one point the performer ( singing passionetly dipping lower and lower the higher they sang) disapered out the bottom of frame and i couldnt unlock my camera! A very amature mistake.

Overall even though my camera skills sound diabolical i felt i caught the atmosphere and emotions in the performers faces. It was a great experiance as it always is doing live events and we left buzzing. This is always important to remember for me , this is what makes me tick and exites me .

peace