The Casino Night presented by the Lyndon State College CAB had a poor turnout, to be completely honest.
Dianna and I arrived an hour early to the scheduled time that the event was going to start to film the teacher/ volunteer training. When we arrived, the room was completely vacant except for the CAB director.
I noticed that he was on the phone talking to the casino company, giving them directions to the campus. The training didn’t happen until 7 pm, which was when the event started.
Cab had to push the event back an hour so it started at 8. After learning this, Dianna and I decided to come back to film at 7:45 to get some shots of the training.
While we were filming, everyone gave us the OK to film them. No problems whatsoever.
We had a variation of shots of casino activates and all of the tables. When 8’oclock came around, there wasn’t too many people there.
The group of people there seemed to have liked blackjack because that was the first table they went to and spent the most time there. The way they set up the chips were, the player had to go up the front table and receive chips (obviously no cash value because it’s a college sponsored activity.).
The person who had the most chip value had the opportunity to pick a prize. The prizes were actually something to be competitive about.
Overall, Dianna and I got some good footage; enough footage to work with. We were really concerned that the camera didn’t pick up enough natural sound, but when we reviewed our footage, the natural sound was beautiful.
We had perfect Nat sound of the roulette table, poker chips hitting the table, dice rolling and background talking.
After reviewing the footage, I edited it the story together.
Once when the story was complete, we need to add narration. Writing the narration, in my opinion was the hardest part.
We had to write a script that matched what was going on in the story. After we wrote the script, we recorded the entire narration on audacity with a microphone.
When that was all done, we edited the script in with the video. This part was a little complicated but after a few tries the video was complete.
Overall, this had to have been one of easier videos I shot in regards to the people in the video. We had consent to film everything and we were never once brick walled.
