Test Shoot

Our test shoot went very well and we got some great footage. We worked for 5 hours down in the basement. It took nearly an hour just to set up the location though with moving a lot of boxes and mops as well as seting up the lights. We then tested the lights for a good amount of time testing which ones looked best and recorded some different gels and intensities. After this we tried a few different shot types and came up with this idea of a really long POV track shot. We did this a few times each time adding extra things in till the end where we had a great shot. This was the best bit of our test shoot as it helped us come up with the idea for our whole film. Getting feedback from Ms Blackborow gave us loads of great ideas, and now we've basically got a final idea. However, there were problems with the shoot, most involving the lack of spacve in our location. Our shoot involved a lot of time spent on moving equipment, clearing space and removing objects which did not look right in the shot. The location wasn't perfewct as there was so much clutter and we didn't even remove it all. A lot of it we left and we also had to use a sheet to cover a lot. In the real shoot we plan to get helpers to help us clean up and make space for us.
Shaun