I had Animal Planet round filming my house yesterday!
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 10:13 am
Last week, Animal Planet called me about my Youtube channel, saying they're making a series called MyCatsGoneViral, and could they film the cats for a day sometime?
I said yes, certainly, and they said how about next weds? We're flying a crew over from Canada!!!
so then I started on a 3 day tidy up of my hovel, which ended up in a tidy lounge! Lovely!
They turned up with a single softbox, a reflector, DSLR Canon (forgot to ask which one) and a pretty fancy 3x radio mic and sound recording setup.
There was a 4 person crew - director, cameraman, sound, and camera assistant, who was pretty clued up, and not a gopher.
We started off with interviews, where they asked a variety of questions, for about 20 mins?
Then based on the answers I'd given in the interview, they wanted to film certain types of behaviour of the cats, so that's why they did the interview first.
After the cat filming, I needed to film the intro and outro to my segment (30 min show with 3x10 min segments)
the intro was me coming out of the front door holding one cats, saying "this is Freya, my spoilt little princess" they had the camera on one of those dolly rails on tripods, and tracked towards me as I said it.
Finally for the outro, they had the directors chair sequence, where there is a shot of the cat sitting in a directors chair, with all the tech equipment visible, and again, tracked into the the shot using their Dolly rail setup.
All in all, a fascinating and fun day!
It should be airing in March/April sort of time.
There are some pics on my facebook page, but I don't know if I'm allowed to share them with the public yet...
I said yes, certainly, and they said how about next weds? We're flying a crew over from Canada!!!
so then I started on a 3 day tidy up of my hovel, which ended up in a tidy lounge! Lovely!
They turned up with a single softbox, a reflector, DSLR Canon (forgot to ask which one) and a pretty fancy 3x radio mic and sound recording setup.
There was a 4 person crew - director, cameraman, sound, and camera assistant, who was pretty clued up, and not a gopher.
We started off with interviews, where they asked a variety of questions, for about 20 mins?
Then based on the answers I'd given in the interview, they wanted to film certain types of behaviour of the cats, so that's why they did the interview first.
After the cat filming, I needed to film the intro and outro to my segment (30 min show with 3x10 min segments)
the intro was me coming out of the front door holding one cats, saying "this is Freya, my spoilt little princess" they had the camera on one of those dolly rails on tripods, and tracked towards me as I said it.
Finally for the outro, they had the directors chair sequence, where there is a shot of the cat sitting in a directors chair, with all the tech equipment visible, and again, tracked into the the shot using their Dolly rail setup.
All in all, a fascinating and fun day!
It should be airing in March/April sort of time.
There are some pics on my facebook page, but I don't know if I'm allowed to share them with the public yet...