Today we were off to shoot our cooking scenes. Casey's Dad had very kindly allowed us to use his kitchen.
This was a new experience for us both. We have never shot cooking before.
We were a bit lost at first thinking where should we start, so we just got all our kit ready. We had booked out a set of arri lights which is a good thing because they really lifted the environment.
There were some focus issues, because in some cases we couldn't get far enough away with the camera to focus properly, some shots that I thought were focussed through the monitor actually weren't but we couldn't get the shots we wanted any other way. I think it's ok though.
Casey's stepmum wasn't meant to be there but her plans changed and she ended up being there. Which was ok but she felt like she couldn't come into the kitchen and got a bit angry. This is always a potential issue when using someone's house as a location. It also made us feel like we had to rush to finish and get out of the way. However, our footage didn't suffer due to rushing which is good.
When we left the house we went to mine to get a couple of shots we didn't do in that house. We chose not to light it, which in retrospect was a mistake but we were so exhausted from both cooking and shooting all day that we wanted to finished as soon as possible. There was also the fact that the lights are damn heavy and we didn't want to carry them up the stairs to my flat! However, if I were to do it again I would push through the exhaustion and light it anyway to get the best shots possible.
Because we hadn't finished all our studio shots we booked out 2 days for the following week to get it all done.
No comments:
Post a Comment