I'm very interested in the p
rocess of getting
the same shots from different angles.
Like how..h
ow are you able to maintain everyone's
attention, because it looks
like there's probably
five different angles of the
flash mob and some close-ups too!
Yeah, that was definitely a challenge
like working around people's schedules.
So organization totally paramount. Like
doing it all myself was like so hard.
So that's why I like
knowing that, like, it's like in the
professional world, it's somebody's job
with probably four or five other people to
keep track of people
that..to be in certain places..
like total
respect to all those names in movies at
the end, like watch those. Give them
give them your time, because like
there is so much that goes behind the
scenes that that people I think
know and realize, if they think about it,
but like there's a lot that goes on. But
continuity is one of the hardest things, I
think. When you're really trying to also
focus on product as well as process.
I think we can do both
in this...in this medium
that like, you know, there's I think
something to be said, I have plenty of
videos that were just process oriented
that like the product itself is just like,
"oof," you know,
real rough and real rough.
And that is totally OK, too, because that,
that wasn't the focus. Like sometimes we
actually make the decision
at the beginning.
Like, this is about the
journey, not about the end.
And what we get at the end is just that. I
t documents the journey.
But sometimes if you also want to t
hink about the process and the product,
being organized is really, really, really,
really key. Especially if
you're doing something that is
multiple shots at multiple angles,
basically like a one camera sitcom where
I think shows like.
I don't know, like Saturday Night Live,
it's like it's all one take,
have lots of cameras and they, you know,
some guys in the booth saying cut
to camera one, cut to camera two.
So they're like live to tape,
whereas something like a lot of
sitcoms, it's like one camera.
They established a shot and do the take.
And that's what this
this one was all about.
Like identifying what the tape was
and what the camera angle was,
was really important. And then those
longer shots, like the dance number,
were all choreographed.
They rehearsed it.
They kind of learn it.
And then we rehearsed it and then do it. B
asically I have three
shots, three takes to do it.
And I think I also recorded some of the
rehearsals to get some
close ups and whatnot.
So like watching it over and over again, I
know where all the mistakes were
in terms of like cuts that like
don't make sense, but that's OK.
But if you plan it out and have everybody
know that, like: try to do it exactly
the same each time, don't look at
the camera,
when you're finished, don't leave, you're
like don't move or wander around between
cuts because, like, it helps when we reset
back to your marking, your blocking.
If you have any experience in like theatre
and musical theater, if
you think of it like that,
it's helpful, I guess, in terms
of blocking the stage directions.
Yeah, I'm working on a music
video right now, at my new job
I'm running
i. And the issure I'm running into is the
residents that I'm working with just don't
have the patience to do
it over and over again.
So and then also
doing this amidst coronavirus, there's
some people that I can't
actually see in person.
So I'm having to get their nurse or
their caretaker to take a video instead.
So I'm
trying to
create a music video with one shot
of each group is is definitely difficult.
But hopefully,
you know, after getting used to the
process and doing it a couple of times,
eventually we'll be able to work up to
being able to repeat scenes and
film from different angles.
Yeah.
Well, that's where B-Roll is
also very helpful to
see if it applies to any of those other
shots, if you can get them like close ups
of handclapping or like other elements of
the song that you can use to cover moments
that might not make sense musically or v
ideo..
.
Video-ly, Videoally?
Visually?
Visually, I guess.
Yeah.
But like visually in the video medium.
So video-isually...
I'm going to spell it out on the bottom
here
"videisually." A couple of silent letters in there
Great. The next video I want to show is
a video that also took multiple shots.
However, it was from everybody's home
and it was put together
to create a virtual band.
So a lot like the virtual choirs that are
getting really popular now where you have
a bunch of people singing the same song
and the audio is combined and it's on just
one screen with a billion people. I
t's like that,except I did it a little bit
smaller scale with
some artists that I was working with and
also being at home, but they didn't
have.. most of them didn't
have the gear that was needed.
So you are about to see someone
playing like a table and pot drum.
It's great.
It's great.
But it was a lot of fun.
And this also required a lot of
pre-planning
and organization up front in order to get
this to at least sound somewhat
and look somewhat good.
P
lanning.
Yeah, preplanning.
All right, so that was a snippet
of I love rock and roll.
I love it.
And you can say they're loving it.
I think,
you know, even though the distance is
there, I think they're still...
doing it like this is such a great
way to still keep that relationship.
Oh, definitely.
Definitely.
Yeah.
So this concert, this was actually..
the reason I made this video was because
we were actually supposed to put on a
concert in April
and then that got cancelled.
So we decided to put on a virtual concert.
And so they already knew most of the
music. It was just a matter of actually
putting it together, and
the way we created it was I worked with
some practicum students and a co-therapist
and we recreated backing tracks for them
to listen to, which you can
see headphones throughout.
And it's because the listened
to the backing tracks in
playing and singing along.
And then just sync it up on your end
and put them in the different boxes.
Yeah, put them in different boxes and then
try to edit some of the audio so that it
was more in sync because
some of their audio was like really
loud and some was really soft.
So to make it sound a little
bit more like cohesive track.
Like some mixing involved.
Yeah.
And sometimes, like,
I've done it where I'm
like, if they get somebody gets ahead or
behind, you can actually play with the
time a little bit. You could do a little
timing. That didn't happen there, I'm
just speaking.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean the hardest parts I find with
that too is like giving up the control.
Yeah.
There's a lot of trust involved.
Mhmm. Because you don't know
how are they going to film it.
You know what angle
they're going to film on.
Are they going to film
it this way or this way.
And also what kind of quality does their
phone have or if they're
using an actual camera
and how to..
how to get the footage to you?
Yes.
Yeah.
Depending on where you are, you
might have to worry about, like
privacy issues, transmitting video over
over Dropbox or GoogleDrive
And if you have to worry about,
like, HIPAA things there.
Depends
where you work some, it's not an
issue, but some places it is.
Yeah.
Yeah.
For this one, this particular company
wasn't that big of an
issue as long as I kept.
You know, their personal information
private,
but the video itself. Yeah, I mean, it
went straight directly to me towards
Dropbox and then immediately
after, I delete the Dropbox, so.
Yeah.
And then for for us here, like we have to
make sure that it is HIPAA compliant,
so like the regular Dropbox
account doesn't cut it.
It has to be the paid version of
Dropbox that has password protection,
even other ways like WeTransfer.
Yeah
the paid version.
We're still navigating that.
It's different now than it was a
little while ago. They used to tell us
like, you know, "get it to
them on a CD." And it's like,
I want to give you a video of like the
video of their child's performance.
of their child's video, give it to them.
Like
it's sort of frustrating too, because,
you know, it's also it's like
the video of the session
is Protected Health Information (PHI).
Yes.
Whereas, you know, so it's like, you know,
what are we as clinicians want to consider
therapy? Like we're fighting to be like
how we want to be viewed as clinicians.
And, you know, our documentation sometimes
comes out as product, which is video.
And since it happened in
session, technically it's PHI.
Yeah.
So we have to treat it as such as like
giving any sort of
Protected Health Information out. I
s the method of delivery s
ecure?
So that was something that
it took a long time to get the
infrastructure on our end.
And it actually it works out a lot easier
now since the pandemic hit, they basically
had all the parents sign
waivers to do video chats
and then like the departments were sending
pictures and videos of the children to the
parents through the neighborhood or
the unit's iPad device. So like,
I don't know why it's
different now, but that's OK.
I think, because it has
to be and they had..
they got everything signed.
So it's been a nice way now.
I've done a couple of videos of..
with a resident, with a couple of
residents of doing them like flying or
just like a little silly, like 30 second
like like gag reels of them
doing something really silly.
And now I could just give it to the
parents at the end through the
the facility's iPad to their device.
Right. And it's all covered under
sending pictures. That's awesome.
Yeah, I've been waiting for years for
that and took a pandemic for them to
get me what I want
better late than never.
That's true.
Yeah.
Yeah.
