Shoot Day Write Up

SETTING UP:


I started off the shoot by setting up the lights the night before. We had 36 normal light bulbs hanging from the ceiling with blue, green and white bulbs hung in random sequence. We tried to make the lights so that there weren’t any of the same colours too close to each other, because this I believe would have reduced the artistic quality, which was meant to be achieved. When setting the lights up I had to direct the lighting technician as to where I wanted to hang them in order to get the right stage set up, and the right proximity and depth.

At the back there were 5 LED light trips arranged into a pyramid, which would vaguely frame the band. These also added an effective sense of symmetry and allowed us a variation of shots; the LED’s were capable of changing and giving lots of different lighting effects, however we decided to stick with white light on the back LED’s so that we could keep an effective image, and so that it would not distract the viewers from the actual song itself, which can easily be done if you have to many distracting and glaring lights.

Finally we had 8 strip lights on the floor, which at first we did not really know exactly what we wanted to use them for, however we soon decided on placing them on the floor around the band, this gave more of an impression of a performance area. We also used them to light up some of the close up shots of the drum kit.

The next day we finished setting up when the band had arrived and we set up the drum kit in the right position where we wanted it, and made sure that the light bulbs were not in danger of being smashed when the band were performing. I had previously taken into account that they would need room in which to perform, so I had given them room by positioning the light bulbs at varying levels and different areas of the set.