Seminar Shoot with Sound Group

Today's seminar we worked with the sound students and two actors to shoot a small scene we have be looking at in previous weeks. As with the CPR shoot, our roles today were to set up lighting and compose different shots in front of a green screen after planning them in previous weeks as a group. The script that we were given was as follows:

Our group took a while to get our head around some of the narrative in the script as it seemed as though some dialogue or connection had been taking out to join the parts together. However we still planned a rough shot list with the script and how we would run through the sequence as once again we would only have 40 minutes to film all our shots. Our group decided that we would run the whole scene through from 4 different compositions to start with and then look at the closer details e.g close ups. First of all the set up we wanted was, as mentioned in the script, to have 3 pools of light separate from one another of for the whole scene to be acted out in one of these pools. To do this we set up 3 dado's high up on stands, attached to a grip that put them almost directly over the actors.

Due to time and lack of numbers, we joined by helping out another group in the technical side of things by setting up lights, reflectors and directing the actors. In this seminar I learnt the importance to be constantly making notes when filming so you can record what iris you used, the focus, zoom length, white balance e.t.c so when it comes to editing you can have as much information as possible to aid you when it comes to post-production. Also having a storyboard and/or a shot list can really help out when time becomes an issue during a shoot because you always have something to work with to guide you if you get off track.