Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Review of Last Week

The shooting is complete! Friday night I filmed the master shot. After weeks of planning and doing test shots it came out really good. I did run into a few problems while setting up the scene. For example, all my test shots were done inside my living room and the actual shooting location was inside a Sunday school room. Since the Sunday school room is a lot bigger than my living room I had a lot more space to work with and had to spread out my lighting a little more.

I also had to change my lighting set up a little bit. For some reason my key light was a little brighter in the Sunday school room than it was in my living room. Because of this I decided to put on the covering for the key light which I did not use in my test shots.

Shooting the b-roll was really fun. It felt a little funny and silly at first with people watching me as I filmed. The kids that participated were really cooperative. I am so thankful for that. My photographer was really good too. I've learned a lot about him since shooting this film and I'm sure people in the church will too once they see the final edit.

Sunday, November 15, 2009


Here are some test shots I've done so far for the documentary. My final test shots are done in HD with a blue filter for the backlight but I was unable to post those because I do not know how to import video that's shot in HD. I will plan a date to shoot the documentary this week since Ken will be back from North Carolina. The music I was thinking about using for the documentary was the opening song from "The Office" but now I'm having second thoughts. I'll keep looking.