Shoot day Evaluation

Evaluation of shoot day

We began assembling our sets the night before the shoot day, as the first scene involved material 

hanging from the ceiling. After setting up the first scene, we began dressing our cast in the morning in their costumes and began shooting around 9:30. The first scene took longer than expected. We first shot wides from the front, and then went on to shoot shots from the back and eventually a tracking shot around the scenario, which took some time to set up. In the time we shot the first scene we had planned to shoot two scenes, and so we began shooting the second scene behind schedule. 

The second scene involved water, so we put membrane on the floor and lay the artist down and poured some water on her. When doing this we had to tie the hanging material into knots so that it was out of shot, to be used in later scenes. The second scene did not take so long, but it did not look as good as we had hoped, as it was a compromise to a more elaborate set we had previously imagined.

Although the second scene went quicker than the first we were still not working as quickly as we had planned. we moved on to the third set which was the scene with the indian dancers. This scene took quite a few takes because the dancers did not know exactly what they were doing and so we had to keep shooting until they were performing the way we wanted. Overall this wasn’t a very successful scene in terms of performance however the costumes looked good. 

The fourth scene was the scene with the lycra in the background with the faces pushing against it. this scene was successful as the artist was dressed well and the faces in the lycra worked well. We managed to do this relatively quickly, and moved on to the next scene which was of one of the artists with material pulling them from either side going of camera, which worked very well and is one of the best shots we have as it looks very professional and the performance was good. 

It was around 5 when we shot the next scene which was of the dancers in the flour with tin foil on their faces. The dancers we had chosen did not perform especially well and so myself and another group member went on and shot a few shots of ourselves dancing in this scene so we had another scene to choose from if it did not look good on camera. We shot this from various angles including tracking shot and it took quite a while. 

We spent around an hour assembling the final set which was the pebble walkway with smoke coming out, which was difficult to shoot because I had to hold the elastics restricting the one artist and we put material over myself so that I would not be seen in camera. We also had another group member blowing smoke into the pebble walkway from the other side which we had to try and not get in shot as well. We shot this from both sides, also with close ups and finally a tracking shot and we finally finished shooting at around 8pm. 

This meant we did not have time to do the final scene which was a water scene which would have been too long and difficult to set up and we figured that we had enough footage anyway. 

Overall the shoot was successful and we managed to get the majority of shots we wanted and we are pleased to see the outcome after a long day of shooting.