Thursday 26 May 2011

The shoot

Today we had the shoot for the final images. We all arrived early so we could finish setting everything up, some of our stuff had been borrowed by the other group and we had also asked if we could borrow their mirror but when we went to get them we were told we weren't allowed them and we had to wait quite a while until were were allowed to go and retrieve the things that had been taken. Once we had them we were able to dress the set, we spent an hour or so moving furniture around, arranging the table and putting the food on a tray and in the bedroom, until we were all satisfied with the layout.
We then went next door to meet Fergus who would be helping us with the shoot, he took us through the lighting being used the rigging we could use the filters and safety. He also went through they type off effect we could make and what we needed to think about when we came to creating our shots.
Once we had cleared up in the room and laid out what we needed we started setting up lighting and set up cameras. For the shoot we could use our own stills cameras but as a group we would be using a video camera and from that we would take stills as our final image. A video camera creates a different image to a stills and as the sets were built for filming in and not for stage it would be best to have the final images in the form the set was designed to be seen in.
When everything was set up we started taking film and we were able to play around with the lighting, with the effects we could make. we used gels, blinds, a smoke machine and a piece of cardbored that was moved in front of the light to break it up. I was very happy with the shots that I got and even though I didn't use the video camera I took lots of images on my own camera.
when we had shot a little the videos were downloaded onto a computer and we could see what we had done this gave us a chance to see what worked and what didn't. Unfortunately some of our early ones were not in focus so we practised with that and the second lot we did were much better.
By the end of the day we had got lots of shots and I was very impressed by what we had been able to do as a group but also the pictures I had taken myself.

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