Time Laps Craze

5/10/2011           posted at: 7:25         started at 9:30 AM worked until 2:00 PM 4.5hr day

I met Ethney at the dinning hall this morning at 9:30 AM. We set up out back at went over the plan for the. we waited on a delivery truck to get a shot of it coming into the dinning hall driveway and unloading the fruits in the back of the dinning hall. While waiting I practiced on the maintenance crew and got warmed up with the camera. The fruit tuck was supposed to show up at 10:00 which would leave us ample time to set up for the time laps shot in the kitchen preparing lunch. While waiting I picked Ethney's brain and asked questions geared towards financial profits and how to know if a job is worth the time. At 10:50 the truck had still not shown so we bagged it and set up the time laps in the kitchen. (For those who do not understand what a time laps is I provided a link on the right) this gave me a chance to better understand the camera. We changed the interval time (time between the frames ex: take a frame wait one second take a frame wait one second ect.) to a one second interval. this made for a nice time laps. first we took a time laps of the kitchen preparing lunch, then we moved to the dinning hall for the hot food line when lunch opened, next up stairs to get a cross dinning hall shot of the hot food line and the drinks, then to the front of dish duty to get people dropping off plates and the front half of dish duty and finally the back side of dish duty for the clean plates coming out. Each time laps was on a one second interval so at 30 frames per second(FPS) that means ever one minute we had taken 2 seconds of video. to have a substantial time laps you need at least 5 minutes of the camera sitting not moving. 5 minutes of the camera not moving comes out to a 10 second clip a lot of time for a short out come. Besides the insane amount of time laps I also worked on a interview with Art and getting B roll footage of people working in the kitchen wether it was chopping veggies, cutting the silver off meat, mixing, or cleaning I worked a lot on different angles and different lighting. After the kitchen we moved onto sneaking into class rooms. To name a few I invaded (and made every student self conscious in) Tom Morgan, Linsday Brown, and Patti Ponds. I worked on pulling my focus, finding places to white balance while running and gunning, and scoping out good shots. My eye needs some work on finding what looks good on camera but that will come with time. All in all today was another great day and cant wait to see how my shots look tomorrow while editing.