Rehearsals at Openshaw

Our Rehearsal Filming was done at the Openshaw campus with Seb on the first day and Nazan and Cyprian started on the second. Pin Drop Production Crew had earlier met up to plan out what we were going to do. As it became obvious that we would be missing one important person in team, our head camera operator, we had to device a way to go past this set back. Our decision was to have our floor manager, Chris Waddington to stand in for Michael. As director, I had, as part of my job to visualise and more importantly communicate my vision to the rest of my team which I did successful and they loved it and supported me by running with it. The planning consist of creatively planning out the camera angles and positions and effects. Also adequate thought went into the facade of the stage and the lighting that will be used to give us the desired creative look. An idea also came to me about using filters. A lot of things happened as we planned them out but many more was stumbled upon accidentally. One very important element during our filming experience was using certain filters for our tricaster mixing. DAY ONE: OPENSHAW Tricaster Filter On the 15TH whilst we were filming our first act, it was decided that we would use Camera 3 as an out of focus shot which we could use as a filter on top of our two other camera shots. To an extent, this work quite well, however, the downside of this was that we were one camera short which to some extent reduced our camera options. The filters gave our live out put a different feel from what everyone was already doing and it looked quite good at the time as it added some colour and life to the shots.

DAY TWO: OPENSHAW

On the morning of the second day, I had a chat with our tutor, Ricardo and he advice that although the idea of having an out of focus filter on our video was quite good however, the same effect could be reached by using a photograph uploaded on the tricaster. He further advised us that it would make more sense if we had three camera options rather two like with did the previous day. This sounded quite interesting and I swiftly acted upon his advice and improved on it. Instead of taking photographs, I made filters using out of focus lights of varying colours. They looked really stunning and very original as we put them to great use on our shoot with Nazan. This move I think shaped our style and vision of what Pin drop Production will be about. It became obvious to me that we can't just settle for shooting our act straight to camera but we had to incorporate other footage we could either use as filters or projections behind our contributors. I was amazed! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOvTRE8Kb00&feature=player_embedded