First performance shoot reflections

Last night we had our first performance shoot. It went quite well in the end; extremely tiring!

We had decided that there was absolutely no point in storyboarding our performance, so instead we wrote up a list of every angle we needed; simply having them in text form is enough- drawing them too would have been unnecessary.

We didn't think we would shoot anywhere near everything (and we didn't), but we just worked our way down the list one by one.

For our master shots we had two cameras filming at once, one steady and one freehand. This is good as we will be able to use some match on action between shots.

Lighting proved to be an issue; we wanted a dark and moody feel to our set up, but balancing this out with 3 point lighting was tricky in such an enclosed environment. Especially as we are dressed in black, too dark meant we blended in to the background, but too light meant our set and faces looked horribly over exposed.

We will need to review our footage to see how the lighting looks; hopefully there will be some stuff we can use but we were treating tonight as a semi-test shoot; all of us are expecting 2 or 3 re-shoots to get the best footage possible.