Cassie Hanks VIZA 614 Blog: Commercial Shoot ReCap

Friday Jacob, Jared, Chris, Ganesh and I went to the mansion to shoot the commercial. I gathered equipment for the shoot while Ganesh made a list of what we need. I pretty much checked out all of the lab's equipment! All of us met at the lab and loaded equipment and headed to the shoot. I worked with Ganesh on the cinematography of the commercial, he did the camera work while I did lighting. In the first shot we had some issue with light showing through the crack of the door hinges, so we used light cases to cover it up (see first pic below). We used a cold light on the ground for glow, and bounced a diffuse with umbrella v light on the outside of the wall. While Ganesh and I set up the first shot, Chris, Jared and Jacob started preparing the next scenes through set design, props and blood. Jacob and Chris took turns at set photography so we could document the shoot/process. To minimize clean up, we used saran wrap to lay the loaf of blood bread on, and had a few spots of blood. The mixture consisted of dish soap so it cleaned up real well (and left it cleaner than before!). On the telephone shot we bounced a cold and a v light off the walls to give a glow, but issues we had is that Ganesh had a hard time focusing the shot. Reflecting back after going through footage, we decided we need a better lens so we'll be doing the shoot again on our rescheduled shoot day this Sunday (March 4) as well as an animatic. In the last shot, Jacob, Jared and Chris made the tape body outline and I set up lights with Ganesh. I used a V light under the mid level of stairs pointed toward the outline, and directly across it a cold light pointed as well, then a diffused v light up the stairs. We had a little issues with hot spots of lights on the v light and cold, but after minor adjustment of moving them further back we were able to solve the problem. Below is set photography Jacob and Chris took to document the commercial shoot.