House Shoot.

On Saturday 30th March we went to one of our group members aunties house to shoot the main interior section of our film opening. We choose to shoot at this family members house as we knew that as they are family they would be reliable and flexible with the date and time of shooting. We had planned to use a treadmill in our opening but for various reasons we weren't able to get hold of one but our back up plan was to use some dumbbells in case any thing went wrong with the treadmill idea so that is what we did. We were on set for about 4 hours and in that time we got everything done that we wanted to do and more. To make editing easier we filmed about 3 different shots per shot that was planned on the storyboards in case we needed any gap fillers.

In the pictures above we see our camera man (Josh Barrett) setting up and taking shots from various different angles on a tripod around our protagonist. For this scene our key light was a Dimmable LED panel placed just off to the right of the laptop. Our filler light simply came from the window behind our actor but the blinds are closed so only a little bit of the light gets through.

The pictures above were taken while shooting the morning work out scene of our opening. For this scene we used our microphone on a boom pole as we wanted to get a more rounded sound of the room and its ambiance, we also wanted to get the sound of the dumbbells banging against each other and if we would have mounted the microphone on the camera the sound may of got distorted as it would of been too close. We know this because while shooting our preliminary task we found out that if the mic is too close to the source of the sound it gets rather distorted.

The image above was taken while shooting the coffee making scene. This scene was shot handheld with another simple lighting set up consisting of a practical lamp as our key light and the LED panel as our back light to light the rest of the scene.

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Metehan Hizli