Aidan Dunbar

Alongside Ben Brown I’m making a new promo video for the Photography course we are currently studying on.

Everything about the course is changing for the new intake, and the old one isn’t particularly good, so we decided to get going and use it as the project for our Video elective.

After shooting a test run on Monday we realised how much effort getting the sound right was going to be - in the cove the whirring fans built into the studio lights were echoing and bouncing around all over the place. In the end we faked the lights with a redhead lighting the umbrella and another lighting the background. A Kino Flo as main to light the face as a big, soft light source.

Issues with noise have been all but removed - now there is just a small hiss that will be easy to take out in post production.

Coming up, we’ll be shooting the darkroom at the Vernon Street campus and doing more interviews.