Filming Day One

My filming journey began at StoneX stadium for ‘The Duel’ aka the premiership game between Saracens and harlequins. There would be multiple red roses playing including Marlie Packer.

I arrived with all of my equipment, went through security and then picked up my media pass. After this I went to the media room. It’s one of the busiest matches of the season so it was pretty packed. I was a little overwhelmed as I hadn’t done anything like this before, but it was such an incredible experience to have.

I set up my filming equipment on the north side of the pitch and got some B-roll / general clips 0of the stadium and warmups. I was using an AC-90 kit as well as my own Nikon D3100 to take some shots too.

Whilst I was setting up I did an interview with Saracens team doctor, Laura Czech. I did this with a flashmic. She gave me lots of vital information about looking after both the Saracens girls and the red roses. She explained that the women’s premiership teams have around 8 hours a week with their medical teams whereas the men’s teams get around 8 hours a day! She also told me that until contracts came into both international rugby and premiership rugby there were very little doctors / medical staff at all.

I stayed their getting further clips of the game for the first half. It was an extremely windy day so I couldn’t stay recording for long as the tripod kept nearly blowing over.

For the second half I sat in the media seats watching the game and taking more still on my Nikon camera. I made sure to try and get shots of the Red Roses players for my article.

The day was sort of a practise day for the Sunday after where I would be interviewing players. I got to understand how the day works for the media, where everything was and get some clips to set me up well for later.