AV News 177 - August 2009
In the previous film (see part one) we had
been able to tour the site, shoot men at
work and bring out the various safety
messages. This time, with few people yet
on site and the firm wanting their
completed safety video like yesterday, we
had to go back to using shots from the
earlier project. Cheating? No, not if the
operations were the same. Drilling is
drilling and welding is welding the world
over. The biggest challenge with this particular site was that it was split in two
by a busy two-lane highway. Explaining that one with visuals was a gift.
In presentations that are full of facts, as this one had to be, it is wise to have
more than one voice presenting those facts. To alternate the voice with each
section is refreshing and helps to keep people alert. Television news people
taught us all this lesson some years ago.
If you could go back to a newscast of
twenty years ago you would at once
notice the difference. For voices we
used an actor as last time but the second
voice was a young employee from the
firm. To minimise his time off work we
had to dig out a local recording studio
near the site. Plenty of these exist but
their usual line of bu ͥ