Let The Filming Commense!!!

I just wanted to update everyone on the status of the video. And for those of you who are completely lost, I'll do a quick recap...

The reason that I'm here in Prague, Czech Republic with the HandsOn program, through the International Mission Board, is to make a video showcasing the ministry of Will Robbins, a IMB missionary. We (Daniel Anderson and I) are making a video that shows all the ways that you can come and help his ministry out in Řepy and be ON MISSION for God.

So, now that everyone is caught up, lets continue! Up until yesterday, most of the video work we were doing was on paper. We were making out the storyboard, which means that we talked through the entire video and had to write everything out on paper and go over and over and over it until we were all happy with the results. We were doing some filming however. But before we could do any filming, we had to find out what equipment we would be using and how it worked. We are using a Panasonic HD video camera that is pretty sweet! We are also using wireless mics which make our jobs a lot easier! So, once we learned how to use everything we went out to Řepy to do some test filming just to see if we would need to incorporate any lighting into the mix. At this point in production, I don't think it will be necessary.

So, yesterday we finally started to film something that will be in the video! We met up with Will and went over everything one more time and then headed to Charles Bridge to film the first part of the history segment. It was cold, but things went relatively well. We had some trouble with hecklers, but nothing major. It took a little longer then I thought it would to shoot the segment, but all in all it went well! So then after that, we went down in the yellow part of the Můstek metro line to film the introduction. That went a lot smoother and we got more then enough good footage! Since the first filming session took longer then we expected and the days are still pretty short, that's all we were able to do. But we are off to a great start I think! We have to go through all the video to see if it's what we want or if we will have to film it again. Well, there is the update on the video! Hope you enjoyed it!