Live Project 1: Film Shoot 14/02/16

On Sunday 14th February we had a film shoot in The Studio, Hartlepool, this was with the two actors and no extras or band. This shoot got off to a bad start when we got to the venue and realised that we hadn't booked out the correct equipment and therefore we had to reevaluate what we could shoot on that day. Once we had spent some time sorting this out we then went onto set up the cameras and the lighting whilst the actors sorted their make up and costume.

When they were done we then started shooting the actors skating around and interacting with each other as well as filming their close ups, these shots where not in the original lighting that we planned as we did not have the gels for the lights that we wanted so we adapted it to suit this problem and just went more stylistic on the other aspects to compensate. 

Due to the fact that this shoot was purely just the lead actors it gave us much more scope for experimentation because we were working in a more refined environment and we had a lot of time to work with, this meant that we could throw more shot ideas and framing ideas around to improve the film. This is how the above shot came to fruition and we came about taking the "you are beautiful" mirror shot. 

Due to the fact that we had only the main actors and the crew, the shoot was mainly for close-ups and cutaways, however, the fact that we had two cameras and operators this meant we could cover a lot of footage in a relatively short amount of time which again meant we could get more content that would help the editor when it got that far.