Day 1

With this being our first day of the shoot we had actors call time at 10am. But me, Jack and Kyle went to stores to pick up all the gear at 9. I did a full equipment list and sent it to James for confirmation, and i had booked everything out the previous week from friday through to tuesday morning. This was the list:

-2x Standard video tripods

-1x Portable track and dolly

-1x Dedo set

-1x 200W Kino

-2x Reflectors

-1x Clapperboard

-1x Rifle Mic

-1x Boom pole

-1x Marantz 661

We were using my camera (Canon 550D) with a shoulder rig i had recently bought, and my lens set. On top of all this i also had a portable top light to stick into small areas to balance light out if needed. 

We knew that we wanted to use 3 point light set ups throughout our film along with gels to use some colour balance. 

When we got all the gear back we immediately started setting up for our first scene. This was the first time we used a proper lighting set up in practise, but i had made some lighting plans for myself for each scene to try and make it easier. For the morning we were slightly behind, but by lunch we had caught up due to becoming more and more familiar with lighting. After lunch we only had to shoot a tracking shot in the hallway which was tricky as we needed to pull focus at the same time. We had practiced this shot in a different location to get a hang of it. But this time we had my new camera rig and follow focus set up. Once this was on it was our first use of the full rig on the dolly. This took us nearly 10 takes to get right. But we feel this is a very good shot.