Monday 7 November 2011

Performance Filming

This weekend we filmed the performance side to our video at Robbie's house. As I was the chief camera operator, I had to make sure that camera 1, filming the master shots, was correctly framed before filming simultaneously the handheld shots on camera 2. On day one I had help with filming, but on the second day I was filming alone. Unfortunately for me, during day 2 we filmed the strobe and smoke. This meant that at points I was having to operate the manual smoke machine, handheld strobe, a camera and was manually zooming. This has proved to be the hardest thing I have had to do yet, but hopefully we got some great footage.

We have planned to film the final performance footage on Wednesday. This will include all of the UV. Unfortunately I will not be able to be there as I have prior, important arrangements, however the boys seem certain that with a few runners, they will be able to get all the footage successfully.

Friday 4 November 2011

Set Design

Our performance set has been completely finished and I am extremely excited about filming in it!
The set designing was a progressive mini project within our main one, and took a number of days.
Here are some pictures of us making the background:






Thank goodness we had our mate Olivia, an art student, to help us. She gave us the idea for making a stencil and directed and helped us make sure that we followed a successful method leaving enough time for paint to dry etc. so that not smudging occurred.