This shoot was quite rushed overall. It was due for a class project and I worked with two other guys to come up with the idea, shoot, and edit in only eight hours. 

 

Equipment Used:

Panasonic GH4

Dracast Tripod

Flycam Nano

 

Editing equipment used:

Adobe Premiere Pro

Challenges faced:
 - Our professor gave us certain requirements that we were supposed to follow: shoot indoors, needs to have a common object in it, needs to have a silhouette of something and it needed to have a moment of "Wow, I didn't see that coming."

- Due to time restrictions and other things I gave myself the challenge of shooting with only practical lighting. I was very impressed with the results for sure. 

- We shot in 4K to downscale to 1080 and I had never done that before. I was curious as to how that workflow would work.

- Timeframe, due to classes and other craziness we didn't have time to shoot this in advance so we started at 4 pm the day before it was due and finished at roughly 12:30 am.  We shouldn't have started this late but we had no choice.

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." - Mahatma Gandhi

 

Lessons learned:

 

- Allow time for the 4K workflow. It took a lot longer than expected.

 

- There seems to be a bug in Premiere when you start editing before it has rendered all of the audio clips from the files. This caused us to loose some audio and have to resync it later.

 

- Beware freezing rain when carrying equipment.

 

- Professors look at you kinda funny when you submit a video about "drugs" at a Christian school.