PREPING FOR THE SHOOT INCL. RUNNING ORDER

Preparation for the shoot:

Props:

• Casio White Keyboard
• Bass Guitar
• Amp
• Logs - tree stumps
• Leaves - enough to cover studio floor
• Roses
• Front of wooden rowing boat
• 2 bikes
• Wooden waves
• Fabric - blues and whites to make waves
• Pasasol
• Gold refelectors
• Face paints

Location - Studio

• Set 1 - Performance element. We want leaves to cover the studio floor and logs diagonally across. We want a naturalistic setting.
• Set 2 - Bikes. Again we want to keep the leaves covering studio floor with 2 bikes on a platform infront of a blue screen.
• Set 3 - Boat. We want to create this fake but real setting, using fake waves and a boat to make it look as if out on a sunny day. The waves being the width of the studio and the boat slightly bobbing up and down.

Here are a few logs of our promo preparation I have kept over a period of time:

Running order for the day:

9:00-10:00

Make -up and costume for Marlene and William

10:00 -11:30

SHOOT Performance concept both Marlene and William

11:30 -12:3

SHOOT Performance concepts Marlene

SET CHANGE AT LUNCH

1:15- 3:15

SHOOT Bike concept both Marlene and William

BREAK : SET CHANGE

4:00- 5:30

SHOOT Boat concept both Marlene and William

5:30- 6:00

DE RIG STUDIO SET

COMPLETE GET-OUT

We have had to take into consideration how long its going to take to shoot our story boards plus leave a little time on the end of each to experiment a little. We had also taken in to account how long each set change is going to be. One will definitely take us 45 minutes as we have to clear the leaves away and change the bike set for the boat set which will require a team of six to do. Seeing as there are only three of use we have hired a few other people to help with the set changes, the moving of the waves, and the lighting changes.
We also had to take into account the time table of both our performers and work out a system that would work around them.



I have now made a list of all the props that need to buy before the day of our shoot for example the roses. At the moment we are debating whether to buy the roses and then hang them so that they dry out or to buy them at a later date when they are read and softer. We are thinking that although the dried out color of the roses would give a more vintage and worn look we feel that a deeper and more lushes red would bring out the reds in the backdrop. So we have settled on buying the roses the night before the shoot and having a budget of £80.00 We have also decided it best to buy them from Tesco’s as they are £5.00 for 10 small roses and £8.00 for five medium size roses.


Now we have arranged all the set design elements for two concepts we have moved on to colleting the leaves and instruments for out performance layout. We have decided to start collecting now as we want to keep the leaves crisp and seeing as there are to be heavy showers up until our shoot date if we leave it any longer we may not have enough time to collect the amount of leaves we need and if we do they will most likely be wet. We feel that it is better to have to many leaves than to have to little as so we have colleted 15 black bag full that we are cretin will be more than enough.

We originally decided that we wanted a white or cream keyboard but we have since had trouble finding one the we can afford and so we have settled on using my old retro keyboard and to match my black acoustic guitar. I also felt to tie everything to get the leaves and the instruments my leather amplifier would be quit I nice tough and would add to our vintage, retro sort of style of the video.


Today we went onto the internet to hire bike stands for our shoot as we need to give the appearance that Marlene and William are riding bikes yet we are filming in a studio with a blue screen and so moving bike will not be doable. As a group we searched the Internet to find a compromise that would allow us to capture this effect and we did. We have now set a date for our shoot and have been able to inform the bike hirers when we will need the two stands and for how long.



As a group we now have a master folder in which we kept a log of all our lighting plans, set plans, costumes changes and prop lists in order to make our preparation for our shoot day as accurate as possible and as easy and quit as possible.

One set in particular requires a lot of time and careful consideration. This concept is the boat scene and the reason why it has take so much time is because we have had to create a boat and waves. We had to build these ourselves as we don’t have the money to go out and buy the kind of boat we want and we have not bean able to rent. In building the boat we began by building a simple frame out of wood and then to create the base instead of using wood as it was more complex we used modrock and then painted the boat a dark brown. In theriou this was not ideal and we wanted a real boat but we decided as we had the materials already that we should most probably try and see if we could create something that would work. Lucky we have and we are all very please with the outcome. Having achieved this we since felt very confident that our fake wooden wave will also be successful and after another weeks work we have now finished sawing out chipboard waves have began to paint them a variant of blues. Up against the boat they look great and we know that when we get the material for the backdrop everything will hopefully tie in nicely and will give the strange naturalistic and artistic style we are looking to achieve.