Reframing the Interface 6- Terry (Buffalo Fish) Interview + Thoughts Part 2

Unfortunately during my first shoot with Terry and his band Buffalo Fish I was unable to film an interview due to the lighting in the venue and the acoustics of the room and the background noises levels being very high. This however allowed be to give more time to preparing my group interview. I decided to get in touch with Terry after the filming of the gig and arrange the interview to be at Terry's house, as this would allow me to control both the sound levels and the lighting levels on the cameras better. I shot this interview last due to the difficulty of rounding up all of the band members together because of their clashing schedules. I finally shot the interview however on the 23nd of March, a few days after Doug's interview.

Conversation with Terry

I arrived at Terry's with Shahid, who would be assisting me on the sound operating and lighting, at around 3:30pm, which allowed me an hour or two to set up and get some additional shots for instance interesting ornaments, images of the band, instruments and so on. 

Cutaway/additional shots filmed. 

We began shooting the interview at 6:00pm. The lighting was set up by myself and Shahid and I operated the main camera and Sony A6000 whilst Shahid operated the boom microphone. The interview itself lasted over two hours and I noticed that it got a bit darker during the filming, however I was not too concerned as I knew the EX3 and Sony A6000 handled low light very well from previous experience with the cameras. I felt the questions I asked were sufficient and I got some very interesting responses from Terry and the members of Buffalo Fish. 

On further inspection on the footage I found that it got very dark during the second half of the interview, however I was not too concerned as I knew I could fix this in post-production and would discuss the possibility of Shahid correcting the image when it comes to the editing process. This was worrying at the time however due to the bands busy schedule however I was optimistic that the footage can be tweaked when it came to post-production. 

Screengrabs from my film. 

I felt the shoot was successful however as I got some very interesting responses from Terry and Buffalo and I got some nice cutaway shots to support what they are discussing and to place into the film at different points.