The day before we shot we set up making the surroundings waterproof. We did this by getting bags full of sand and placing them around the perimeter we wanted, then put a water proof lining on top of it. After this, we got a checkered floor and put it as the base of our set followed by the walls and the bath. The reason we decided to do the bathroom first is because we thought it would be the most challenging set.
On the day of the shoot we were quite well prepared, we had all our props together which included inks, photographs and keyboard. However, before we started shooting we had to fill the bath up with water which took a while.
I wasn't too sure about our set when I first saw it as it wasn't completely how I invisioned it. However, once they added lighting and we scattered the photos on the floor it looked even better then I thought it would. We had a checkered floor and plain walls with a bath in the middle of the set. This was because if we had put anything else in it then it could have began to look over cluttered as it would have clashed with all the photos on the floor. I think overall it really reached the look we were going for as we pulled off the grungy look however kept it looking clean and uncomplicated.
We divided the rolls, those of which being photographer, director, cameraman and someone who made sure we included all the shots we needed. This spread the work load out evenly and made the whole process a lot more smooth and easy.
I think the area I helped out with the most was helping changing sets as once the bath scene was over we had to move all the tiles and walls in order for the next scene to commence. This was okay as the floor was waterproof however the next scene was set on carpet which made the whole process a lot harder and longer. I therefore had to clean up the water with the scoop end of a dustpan and brush. It took and extreamly long time, especially as we were running low on time.
As I previously said, a problem we encountered while shooting was the fact that we began to run out of time after a while. This was not helped by the fact that we couldn't find our main performer 5 minutes before we were about to begin shooting. We set 5 people out to go find her as we were still setting up. On the bright side we found her just in time so we were saved. Other problems included not being able to go right up close in the set as there was water all over the floor and we couldn't risk getting the camera wet, however we overcame this by using ariel shots with a camera attatched to a crane which could swoop down to get the shots we needed.
I think the most successful part of the day was filming Isa in the bath as she got in because due to it being and ariel shot, when she lay down you could see the water pushing away all the photos which were strewn around her, making it look as if she had some kind of force field around her. I hadn't expected it to look this good so we were all very pleased. Further successes of the day included dripping ink on the photos to make it look as if they were running which we had also been worrying about due to the fact that the actual photos wouldn't run, however it looked very realistic so we were pleased with that.
I'm not sure which part of the set I wish could have gone better as I was pretty pleased with most of it. I think we could have timed things better as we did cut it pretty close as we thought we would be finished at 3 and ended up finishing at 5:30. This however wasn't really an issue, maybe next time we should be more realistic with our timings though.
One thing I am most pleased with is that on the day our group worked extreamly well as a team, I had been worried about this previously as I had seen many groups fall out on shoot day and I hoped that wouldn't include us. However I think as we had allocated roles it helped us out massively as we didn't get annoyed at one person not helping or the other way round. We all contributed evenly and I couldn't have been happier.
As far as album artwork and websites go I think we did it pretty well considering we hadn't shot anything before we did it. It all goes quite nicely together, the main thing doing our shoot has helped us with is the pictures that we can now include on our website.
No comments:
Post a Comment