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I did not have time to get back to my site earlier, but finally, here I am.

On the third day, we recorded the provision area with loading of supplies for the ship and some interviews with crew members. The work was different thatn the first two days, because it involved more conversation with people and timing, so I had to switch to a different style. I used my Zylight Z90 a couple of times, I am very satisfied with it! A great light, very helpful in lots of situations.

I own the 8″ Articulating Arm, which was also very helpful! There was a talking head with a safety helmet, so the light dropped some shadows on the upper part of the face because of the light. I adjusted the Zylight in no time on a different height, it showed upwards, and the shadow was gone!

The fourth day was used the completion of recordings we needed for the second episode, afterwards we went into editing. It took quite a while. I switched to Avid Media Composer 4.0.5 with Mac OS 10.6.2, the performance improved. I had some issues with sound leveling of noisy interview sound, in the end it worked out, but it took more time than expected. We chose to use the look from episode 1, with little modifacations here and there.

The fifth day just ended, and we made recordings of the brewery and some interviews as well. Again, very noisy background situations. Andreas,  who will be responsible for brewing on board, is a very nice guy, first time on a cruise ship. It was still not easy to make our recordings, because there were a lot of workers hurrying around, and we had to interrupt now and then, and it took more time, again.

Back in the edit, we checked the online version and feedback to episode 2, and we need to change the look. We learned that on lots of computer monitors, our film is to blue and washed out, overexposed. Although we wanted it that way, it seems to be to much when watched on non-apple computers. Strange. We checked on two Apple machines, it looked basically like the way we wanted it (despite from the fact that the web encoding settings have the tendency to be “low quality”, which we have to accept). As far as I know now, on Windows PC´s, the quality is worse. We watched my output file on video reference monitors, and it looked fine. But in the end, it has to be nice on the user´s screens, so we need to reduce the effect look.

Today (production day 6), we will start in the afternoon and record and edit later during night,due to necessity that certain departments need darkness for their work…