This week, Methodloft went to a lovely american contemporary restaurant in Arlington called Tryst to shoot a promotional piece for Newbury College. Guess who got to go? This guy…
I met up in the kitchen with my co-workers and the client. The set-up was simple but effective, 2 cameras and a sound unit. One camera covered a static area and the other was operated to get closer shots. This method effectively captures two streams of the same footage allowing for practical editing choices, this method also served as an assurance, in case something went wrong with one of the streams the second would still be useable. A good way to ease a client who may not be a production expert is to provide a sense of calamity that all is going well and according to plan, this is done through over preparation…
Our objective was to film six cooking tutorials for a cooking blog with Executive Chef, Paul Turano…
Each tutorial was done in one take, our pacing was fast only starting again for stumbles or pauses. The only real issue was space in the kitchen, but we managed with just a few awkward holding positions. Also hands down the best Guacamole I’ve ever had…
Several dishes, and several gained calories later…
We completed our filming an hour ahead of schedule. A practice of good business, give yourself more than enough set-up and load-out time, as a result we had minimal error, in fact I can’t think of a shoot that I’ve seen go smoother…
… Oh and also since I haven’t posted any videos… Here’s my favorite Jim Carey moment…
