A few snapshots from the OnLocation shoot...
A few stills from the recent OnLocationCS3 shoot. All images shot by Michael O'Neill with his fab digital camera. More to come, in mash-up-remix form (thanks, N.)
Incidentally, just a couple of tips I learned while On-Location doing this shoot...
1) Always have something to cover yourself and the gear. Wind, Sun, Bugs, Oh My! Fortunately, we both had little jackets, and I forced Mikey to surrender his (hey...I live in the Desert; I can't have it drop below 70f lol!). But seriously, I eventually had to give mine up to help me create a little 'iso-room' to monitor the screen, even momentarily. it's akin to wrapping a pair of pantyhose over a hanger to create a make-shift vocal pop-filter-- but it works. Heck, our footage came out BEAUTIFULLY...and if I had been solely dependent on 'what I was seeing' on the viewfinder of the camera, I would have been dead-in-the-water with a bunch of footage that was blown out and distorted. OnLocation's monitoring made ALL the difference in the world, and it rocked. Period. But back to the kit, you really don't want to put thousands of dollars worth of gear down directly on the ground. Seems obvious...but with carting around 2 laptops, the Z1, two digital cameras, cable bag, adaptor/battery bag, and more...it certainly slipped our minds. (thank goodness for jumpers!)
2) Beware of tiny little bugs. I squashed one on the MacBook's monitor...inadvertently...it just flew in there. This was upsetting. Also, @ another point in the shoot, we were sort of, well, in the bush (you'll see when the vid is posted). We camped out on the ground (and very fertile oceany-soil it was), started filming, and then I noticed a herd of Ants marching towards us, from all directions. Yeah, we were sort of in ant-hill territory. GULP! Fortunately, no ants were harmed in that demonstration...at least, I think (and again, it would have only been inadvertent. Sorry ants)
3) Hydrate. Now, being a desert dude, I've ALWAYS got water. This was not something we neglected, but it's a point I just like to make to people. The sun is strong (no matter where you are), and lugging gear and cables (and doing all this whilst filming and narrating) is taxing. Keep yourself hydrated and avoid heat stroke, and the pain of passing out in the middle of a barren English countryside field, only to find that you've been carted away by some odd wildlife, without gear and without the clothes you arrived in. No, that didn't happen...Or did it? ;) lol
Blog on.