Instructable Filming

This week we did the filming for our instructable video on making a laser cut box! Many thanks to my group members Yeonhee and Caleb. Before we started I was pretty apprehensive about filming but we worked thoughtfully and efficiently through each stage of our filming. There are about 9 scenes in our video so we did a lot of lugging camera equipment around. We even took everything to Canal Plastics to film in their store. The store owners were kind enough to let us film there.

In total we have at least 40 to 50 GB of video. We did multiple takes for each section, sometimes using two cameras at the same time. We also created two laser cut boxes, because the assembly step involves using acrylic welding and obviously that can only be done once. Two boxes made the success of each shot less critical.

We had fun doing this. Previously I was afraid of video equipment and paranoid about breaking stuff but now I am much more comfortable with the idea of checking out a camera and using it to do stuff. We experimented with the cameras and even played around with crash zooms while we were waiting for the 50 Watt laser cutter to complete the 7 iterations of the vector cut needed to get through a quarter inch of acrylic. We'll definitely be adding that footage to our final video because it is hilarious!

Here are some photos we took while working. I'm looking forward to the editing stage and producing the final product. This is going to be fun!

Me leaning over a table drawing with a pen on a piece of paper. Yeonhee is facing the table in the other direction.

Box assembly, with the acrylic pieces laid out on the table in front of my hand.

Assembled acrylic box with "ITP" across the front and a few pens in the box.

Photo of Yeonhee and me taking photos of the box with expensive lighting equipment around us.

Final shot of a camera gracefully placed next two two identical acrylic boxes.

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