TAMAKI

We filmed in the Thunderbolt Bristol on Wednesday 7th. Tamakai were involved in a 'battle of the bands'. The prize is to play at the O2 Arena.

We had stocked up my car with all the equipment we needed and my boyfriend Connor came along to help, so we felt confident that we had everything under control.

We arrived , slightly apprehensive, as if this went wrong, we didn't really have another gig to fall back on. We made sure we arrived in plenty of time to set up and talk to the manager Dave MacDonald. We also chatted to Tamakai so they knew the ins and outs of what we were going to film.
As we had extra time at the beginning we decided to do an interview with Ricky Poole to set the scene. We were filming in a very small room so everything was a bit of a squeeze, and it took a while to get the microphone working !As usual it was something simple, we were plugging it in the part of the camera!

Once the first interview was over , we felt more relaxed and the rest of the filming seemed to flow nicely , until, we realised we had not brought an edirol which we could have plugged into the stereo output of the sound desk. We used the rifle mic instead, and listening to the music post production the sound quality actually was really good!

We used three cameras, the Z1 which constantly filmed the gig in the same position, of the whole stage. We also used a Panasonic to film different angles and a small Sony handy cam which was constantly moving about filming the gig.





The night went well and we managed to get interviews with an eclectic range of people including the manager Dave MacDonald. Overall throughout the night i think we worked well as a team, although it was a little stressful at some points as we were so adamant on making sure all aspects of our piece were up to scratch.



Me with the Camera




















Interviewing Rikki





Rikki on Camera





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