We have been shooting pretty much non stop this past week and next week. Tuesday, our first day of shooting was with Rosemary talking on the phone and being killed. It started off being a little slow since we had really difficult shot to achieve from first person perspective on the camera sneaking up on Rosemary while deciding what weapons to use. Lighting was a bit of a challenge since were limited on extension cords and it we had to light both scenes. But we managed with some well placed reflectors and flags to light it well.
Wednesday shoot went along much faster, but was our longest shoot so far since it had the most shots. We got in the hang of things so things ran much smoothly. We had a bit of a challenge with the 360 shot on the dolly, but managed to hide lights behind props to make up for it. I did flagging and diffusing of lights, and worked with Ganesh on lighting of scenes. I found it slightly frustrating on the lighting process because Ganesh constantly kept moving lights himself and didn't direct me. I asked him not to touch the lights and stay by camera so he can direct me on the look but he didn't listen. I figured he was stressing out with Tim there, but I felt like the process took alot longer because he kept running back and forth to check the camera. So I ended up doing set photography so I could be of some use to the shoot. We had Tim out before midnight since shooting started at 9:30. We were finished with shooting around 5:30am.
Thursday shoot went alot quicker, we were able to get out at 2 am. Everyone is more comfortable with the process, so setting up and take down went alot faster. We did set 2 of dining room shots with the all the actors. Lighting was alot easier being in one room, just had to adjust lights when changing sides. The shots order was organized by sides of room for lighting adjustment, so it made the production go alot faster. I flagged/diffused lights when needed when we didn't have enough light tripods, and I also did clapper for takes. Ganesh also started moving lights himself when I told him I can take care of it, as a result he ended up tiring himself out faster. We also had issues with the pico dolly going out of commission. So we had to use the regular dolly to get straight shots which was challenging to get the tracks straight. So I hid under the table and held the track straight to solve that problem. Another challenge for the shoot was to keep focus since everyone was really tired from the previous days of shoots and work/school, so we had a break Friday for the group to get well rested.
Saturday was only a 1 shot day. We went on location to a circular fence where I keep my horse. I was able to get permission from the landowner Friday, and we set up to go there at 3 after Big Event was over with. We had issues with it being a very sunny day, so shadows were really harsh on the faces and it was hard to diffuse since the sun was still very high up. The diffusion material we had only diffused a small space, and we needed the space bigger for the shot. But fortunately for this shot it was suppose to look like 1920's footage, where it was suppose to be high contrast. So we were able to overcome that challenge. Since I didn't have lights to deal with, I did set photography again and the clapper for shot reference.
Sunday was another shoot day, but I had to miss due to being sick. I was able to make it Monday.
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