Filming Blog: Technical Issues

    For filming, we decided to film at Nirmala’s house on the 9th of February. We fortunately did not have conflicting schedules, and everyone was able to show up as planned. I had suggested we start filming at around 3pm to ensure that we would have enough sunlight.  I managed all things regarding configuring technology that we used, including my phone as the camera. I made sure that the proper settings were used for the camera and set up the wireless control via the iPad. I adjusted the exposure, white balance, and focus for each of the shots. I did this because I had prior experience using the app for the music video project. This process proved time consuming, as it required multiple button presses for each shot. However, I felt that the resulting footage was worth the effort. I was the one that had to deal with technical difficulties with the technology we had used. For instance, we originally planned to connect iPad to the camera via a hotspot on my phone (the camera). I quickly realized, however, that the connection was way too slow to stream video properly, and the connection was far from stable. To fix this, I asked Nirmala for permission to use her local network for this purpose. Wi-Fi proved to be a much better means of connection, which fixed the problem. I also had an issue with my phone overheating when filming outside. This is because the phone case I use traps heat quite easily, and filming is quite resource intensive. This combined with the hot Florida sun made this a significant obstacle. When this happened, we had to take a short break to let the phone cool down. I tried taking off the phone case in a futile attempt to address the issue. Unfortunately, I never came up with a permanent solution to this issue, I just had to work around it.