Day 4: Lights, Camera, Action!

Trevor, Kenzie, and Brooks setting up their equipment
to interview Mr. Moudry

     In the morning, we started off our day by preparing our equipment for our filming. My group,  the Mr. Moudry Doc, prepared our gear to interview the legend himself, while the Docception group followed us around, getting some nice shots of us in action. Meanwhile, the Black Hole group stayed in the classroom, working on preproduction and preparation to film later on in the afternoon.

Ren, Justin, Connor, Sofi, Sarah, and Jadyn getting
footage at Antidote

    
     The interview with Mr. Moudry took up the majority of the morning, until lunch. When lunch ended, the gang split up yet again; the Black Hole group left the campus to head to the Black Hole, as well as Antidote, to film. The Docception group tagged along in order to get some shots for their documentary as well, but the Moudry Doc group stayed on campus to edit their footage from the interview from the morning.

     At the end of the day, all of the students who travelled to Black Hole returned to the school campus with minutes to spare before being dismissed. Following their return, all of the students gathered and put away the equipment they'd used from the day and fled the campus to enjoy the weekend.

     Reflecting upon the day, I think everything went very smoothly and everyones production was overall (mostly) successful. My group was successful in obtaining the desired footage, which was the goal of the day. I learned a lot about audio recording and booming during the interview with Mr. Moudry. I found out that booming isn't as easy as pointing a stick and doing nothing; it was hard to hold the boom for an extended period of time without getting tired and shaking, and it was also hard to not make any noise at all. I had to pretend like I wasn't even there, so I sat quietly and didn't move, which, after an hour, started to make me sleepy. It was a little dreadful towards the very end, just trying to stay awake and hold the boom without zoning out, but it was overall a genuinely interesting experience, and I learned a lot.