Senior Care Summit

Set up for the SMASH SHINE Conference

I can't remember the last time that I had to pull out almost every piece of gear that I owned, but that's what happened during the Senior Care Marketing Sales Summit / Summit on Senior Care HR 2017 meetings. I was contracted to provide a small amount of photography for the two meetings, as well as record several interviews with keynote speakers.

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No information was provided to me concerning where the set up was going to be, only that "there will be a section available." With this in mind, I brought along 2 Lowel Rifa eXchange 88s which did a fantastic job of casting enough light in what ended up being a dimly lit hallway of a hotel. Not only do these lights provide a lot of light, but there are pretty light, and are easy to set up and break down if you are a one-man crew.  

Canon C100 Angle from the SMASH SHINE Conference

For the interviews, there was no information provided to me concerning additional b-roll, only that the interviews were to be kept under five minutes. With this in mind, I wanted to run a multi-camera shoot to keep the attention of viewers. The only camera's that I own that have 35mm sensors are a Canon 5D Mk2 and a Canon c100 Mk1, so those two made sense to have on my close-up shots. This left the Canon XF300 to cover the wide-shot and handle the dual audio inputs from the Sennheiser ew 112-p G3 wireless microphone.

The last piece of equipment that I brought with me was th Xrite Video Color Checker. Even though I rechecked the white balance of all three cameras consistently, and all of the cameras were Canon brand, each one is going to have a slightly different color balance, and the Color Checker card helps to compensate for this difference by making it easier to match up all the sources in post-production.

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