PRODUCTION: TITLE SEQUENCE SHOOT (DAY 6)

The title sequence shoot was where we had the most amount of crew. I was able to have a Camera & Lighting assistant and a second cameraman as an option as well. We also had a behind the scenes photographer, Jemma and Victoria (Director and Producer) and also Zak as helper for the shoot.

When arriving at the Theatre we were let in and we were told we only had till 2pm (originally we were told 7pm) however, as I was focusing on setting up and planning out the lighting in my head I didn't catch this piece of information, my own fault which did cause issues later on in the shoot.

While setting up the lighting on the theatres lighting stands, I had Effie and Ebony (Camera and Lighting assistants) set up my Red Head lighting with blue gels on them. 2 Red head lights and 3 key lights with pink and red gels helped get the lighting I needed:

No matter how much blue we added though, the red gel over powered it. I tried dimming and diffusing the light as well but this still didn't help. It gave us enough though that I knew I would be able to adjust the colouring in post-production. I've never been a believer or fan of the phrase "Fix it in post" but in this case it was the best way to move forward.

We ended up getting some extra footage such as Laura moving a disco ball around, I also got a shot from behind Laura as she walked up stage and then posed, the gimbal really helped here as I could remotely pan and tilt up so the movement was nice and smooth, this did take a few takes as it was difficult to get the timing right but the final look was definitely worth it.

Due to not knowing the time change for the schedule, we ended up running over schedule. Because of this, I started to panic in terms of getting all the footage and didn't communicate enough to Jemma and Victoria to explain this to them. I also messed up by trying to get footage on a low battery to which half way through a take the camera and gimbal died. This could have easily been avoided by telling Jemma before the take that I needed to change batteries. This ended up adding more time to the schedule and also adding unnecessary stress to the shoot.

Although all the footage we got from this shoot turned out really well, I feel I failed slightly as a team member on this shoot. One of the main parts of my research I could was communication and professionalism on set and this is where I failed at today, I didn't communicate enough here and from that it effected the shoot and made us run over. After speaking to Jemma and Victoria after the shoot we agreed moving forward my communication needs to be more clear, if I begin to panic I need to make sure they're aware and ensure I'm getting all the information needed.