Filming Ships of Fools
In preperation for the filming of ships of fools we borrowed three cameras and a mic from the film store. It would turn out that there was only space for a 2 camera shoot so we ended up having one spare.
We arrived at 11 to set up the cameras and microphone so we’d be set up in time to film the dress rehersal so we’d have a back up if anyhing went wrong
Everything went according to plan exept for two minor problem. Half way throught the dress rehersal one of the cameras had an error so for the main performance we had to change to the third camera. And during the main performance in the evening the character speaking was blocked from view by a member of the audience, a problem we hadn’t accounted for. unfortunately because of the audience the wide shot from camera two was rendered mainly usless but for the one scene in which both were blocked we plan to cut in the footage from the dress rehersal, if we do this we can cut in crowd audio from the evening performance to make it blend in seamlessly with the rest of the footage. After this scene we raised the camera slightly so the audience no longer got in the way.Unfortunately there was nothing we could do about the wide shot because there was no space for another tripod and no way of raising camera two without getting in the way of the main shot from camera one, due to this most of the performance became a one camera shoot.
If I were to do this again i would start out with the camera higher up so the audience didn’t get in the way, although in hte end this was a problem we dealt with. Unfortunately there was nothing we could have done with camera two as there was no other space for it in the small area we had
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