Arin let me bring my laptop and graphics tablet to work but I don't really have a desk so I took over the live stream area a little. I am using one of the ottomans as the desk and I work on drawings and comics. If I feel like it, I work on animations that I recorded audio for the night before.
One day Arin came over. "So you said you knew video with a camera." Arin said and made a motion like he was looking through an eyepiece of a camera.
I looked up at him. "Yeah, I took some classes in high school." I replied, stating something he probably just needed me to say yes to.
"Follow me" I followed him to the mess room. "Well, I have no idea how to use these," He pointed to three stage lights. One had barn doors and another had a softbox. "and I kind of want a professional looking video." He said.
"Well, I am probably not the best but I can see what I can do." I said. Ross quickly ran in a grabbed the lower ones of the lights, I grabbed another, Arin grabbed the last, and we headed out of the room. "Just show me where you want to film." I said and he lead me to whiteboard in the open office.
"Right in front of this." He said. Ross set down his light. I took in a deep breathe. It looked wonderful, but the whiteboard done wrong would be reflective and look terrible.
"Okay," I said. "I will need the camera, a model, and someone to help me a little."
"I can model." Arin said an flipped his hair over his shoulder and laughed. "I think Ross is getting the camera."
"You are using a tripod, right?" I checked.
"Of course!" Arin joked. "You think we are amateurs?"
"Well, you are asking for an intern's help." I quietly said. Ross came back with a camera that was attached to a tripod. "Okay, who wants to help?" I asked.
"I can help. This is kinda my thing." Ross said.
"Okay cool." I said. "I will adjust things and you tell me if it looks okay in the camera, alright?" Ross nodded. "Okay, Arin." I said and looked at him. "I will need you not to move that much." He did some dance move or something and I ignored it, but laughed internally.
I put the soft box next to the camera, the barn doors just a tad bit off the screen on the right, and the other little stage light far back off screen to the right. I started to adjust each one a little. Shifting them this way and that. I would ask Ross how it looked and he would respond, affirming it looked good, then I would look into the screen preview, and I would change something.
"Okay, I think this looks okay." I said. "Would you like to record a test and see it?" I asked Arin.
"Sure." he said and started to do something really random. "Okay, let me see." I played it back. "Nice work. It looks good." No it looked terrible but sure, this may be the best I can get.
"Do you have everything else covered?" I asked.
"I think so." Arin said. "Thanks!"
"No problem" and I sat on the couch and continued work on my computer while they filmed.