Today we had our official practice shoot at the Lever Street campus, starting off by retrieving the equipment from the van, then hauling it all into the main room where the band would be playing, then downstairs to the studio, which was acting as our Vision Mixing suite. The day was and will be an assessment for a few different courses at the college, so we had to work directly with sound engineers, mixers and performers themselves, who are all due to be assessed as well as our group.
The day got off to a slow start with the setup taking longer than usual, working out technical hiccups and issues with everything from performers not turning up to a general lack of communication in some cases - despite our fancy headsets - and the sweltering heat in the main room, coming from the lights, the abundance of electrics and the high body count. However, once everything was sorted technically, things ran a lot smoother with changeovers getting quicker and quicker, the sound engineers became less disillusioned with the whole thing and we began to get some decent results.
Some tedium:
http://www.ustream.tv/embed/recorded/19678281
My scheduled individual roles for the day were vision mixing for the third act, floor managing for the fifth and camera assitant for the sixth (which we didn't make it to). With my roles completed to what I felt were a good standard, a long and stressful had come to a close. All in all it served as a valuable experience which will no doubt serve to be very important indeed for next week's official shoot, if the people from the other courses decide to turn up we should have a very productive and exciting day on our hands.
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