Jib Test 1

This is a post to document the test that we ddi using the jib for both of the productions I am working on, however, as producer for Alice this was more useful for me from my directorial stand point on Inheritance.

Firstly there was the construction of it which was fairly easy although it was not as easy at it should have been for us. To clarify what I mean by this, what I mean is that, it is easy to put up for us now that we have practised but had we not then it would have been a nightmare on set. For this practise we couldn't actually attach a camera to the jib due to the fact that it requires the slider head which was booked out, instead we just went without and practised the movement.

We also found that during its set up one of the pieces required for it to work was missing so myself and Liam had to go to a local DIY store to find a replacement, luckily we did and this meant that the construction of the jib could continue. Once we managed to get it up we realised we didn't have much space to work with and as such should have perhaps done the test somewhere else, although this didn't prove to be a major problem as we could still do it.

Once we had it up and working we practised Brad's shot that he wishes to use in Alice which has the character walking through a moment as the camera raises behind her. This wasn't simple at first but after a few tests with no camera, no monitor and no actress we managed to get the camera movement fluid and smooth meaning we now know that the shot can be done.

The above picture is a place holder as I was working the jib and no one took a picture but after that we practised my opening shot for Inheritance with a pretend Cross instead of panning down nothing. The shot itself is a jib shot which pans down Ralph's cross which is a big stone cross, this is a hard shot to do as not only do you have to pan down the cross, you also have to adjust the angle of the camera to make it sty level, this was not an easy task but with the four of us working on it we got something like what we will want for the final product and as such I am confident now that we can pull the shot off for real.

That's all for now, the next test we did was the glide cam, that post will be up in the very near future.