Barnardos training film day 2

Well that's the filming finished! Had a great day using a great piece of kit, the semi-professional Canon XH-A1 again. Everything ran really smoothly today (apart from the odd door slam in the background!) and we finished ahead of schedule. All that remains is the editing, it will be great to see the end result!

Barnardos training film day 1

Today I started work on a training film for Barnado's. The charity is currently in the process of delivering a training course entitled ‘Interview Panel Training for Service Users’. This is aimed at children and young people who access Barnardo's services across North Wales. The aim of the course is to train this group of people to sit on interview panels during staff and volunteer interviews as the charity believes it is important that they have a say in who works for them.

The brief is to to film 4 different interviews each with the same actors. However, for each interview the actors will be focussing on a particular trait of their character. For example, interview 1 would be competent interviewers and a shy interviewee. Interview 2 would be disorganised interviewers and a strong candidate. The mock interview clips need to demonstrate the different ways in which a job interview can be carried out. The clips will be used as a training exercise where our service users will look at body language, dress, use of words and various other things. They will also be learning to access a good candidate and also how they might come across in an interview

The filming will take place over two days. For the first day I have taken the role of 'boom operator'. Tomorrow I will get to be the Cameraman so I'm looking forward to that! It was great working with a new group of people and working for a charity with a very worthwhile cause.