2nd and 3rd Performance shoots

This weekend we did two evenings of shooting our performance in a row! It was extremely tiring but we are really happy with the results.

After reviewing footage from our first performance shoot we realised we needed some guidance with our lighting (see the group blog for more details about over exposure problems), so we got the technician, Chris, to come and help us.

Upon arriving to help us with lighting, we discovered 2 of the 3 lights we had were inexplicably broken! So we've gone from 3-point lighting to 1-point lighting overnight. No problem however, i spoke to Mrs. Blackborow and another light has been delivered to my house; the lighting now looks fantastic: much moodier and more in theme with our branding.

Also, from a performance side of things, i think we really pulled out all the stops this time. The original footage was quite static; we probably weren't going for it as much as we needed to. But this time, especially whilst messing around with the smoke machine and strobe lighting, we went completely mad! We also got a great performance from our drummer, George, who was quite conservative originally but went full on last night.

I am so excited to get editing with this footage: both our narrative and performance sections are coming together nicely. We didn't get to shoot the UV light stuff, but this is better as now we have a whole evening to work on this. Also, painting ourselves and only shooting some of what we needed would be pointless as achieving continuty with the symbols we are going to cover ourselves with would be really hard.

We're on our way!