Friday 19 February 2010

Studio time!

As luck would have it (and an awful lot of planning); we had until 9 oclock to get the filming done. And as it panned (lol) out we needed almost all the time. We had the greenscreen induction at 2.30 and then just stayed there til close. Here is a short vid of the Studio.
Note the lighting system that we had to use is the portable one; as we have not yet had the full studio health and safty induction. The yellow ones are called 'Blondes' and the red ones 'red heads',(this comes from a photography/film background,girls,girls,girls!). The Blondes are for lighting the back green sheet; they are set to flood and give off a light which produces soft edged shadows. This is also thanks to the gel deffuser. They are set to the side more than normal to imitate the street lighting and to aviod the back shadow. The Red heads were used to partly kill the shadow made by the blondes; but to also light the subjects. These were also gelled and flooded. The next thing to do was take a shot and work out the angle/position of the camera. This had to be only roughly because the images are on a plane and can be moved in 3d space afterwards. We also set the camera up.
Once some footage had been filmed we got a rough key in aftereffects using keylight 1.2 and decided on the final position of the lights and camera.
The next thing was to make sure the 'actors'knew where they had to perform the action and where the cut off points were. We knew the shots from the storyboard; so this was governed mainly by the shadows and the space we had available to us. The first shot of the boys walking toward eachother was first filmed separatly and then the two of them coming together.

The Rehersal; be serious!!!

The shots of the gun were taken from two angles and then cut together; the shot of Oddne being kicked was also shot from two angles and stitched together.
In my next post i will include the footage at the correct timing without the background; almost like our blockthrough.
I feel we are making progress and are on time with this project; but also i am aware that time is never on our side...

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