'My Precious Folk Culture' documentary

I got given the role of sound operator for Mikela and we filmed in a Sixth Form Colllege on a weekend, where Albanian children go for dancing lessons and a few academic subjects. This documentary is about the Albanian language and lifestyle and if being brought up in England has any affect on their ethnic background or culture.

I was working with Mikela as the director and Charles Gyamfi as the camera operator, I used a boom microphone and a zoom recorder to capture sound of the interviews and the music of when they were dancing.

We had a few problems at first because the Mikela being the director did not bring any SD cards or batteries so we had to make a trip to the nearest store that sold them, which wasted a lot of time. In my previous short projects that I have been part of the director had always provided me with batteries and SD cards unless they told me to bring my own. The day before I even asked Mikela if she needed me to bring any SD cards or batteries and she said that she would provide them. After buying the SD card and batteries and missing the important half of the sound, which was the dancing lesson but luckily we still caught it on camera, just no sound but we carried on with the interviews once we got the sound equipment sorted out. We were also running out of time as the lessons had finished and the parents were outside ready to pick up their children, so we had to rush things a bit.

Apart from that major problem everything else went alright, I managed to capture all the sound for the interviews and Mikela had to use sound that was captured from the camera. 

Next time I will just bring my own batteries and SD cards, just in case because we can't always keep buying new SD cards and batteries as it is very time consuming.