We now have boots on the ground.
We shot the first scene of November Girl this morning at the PATV parking lot. The weather was pretty bad at first, windy and gray, but by the time we got shooting it had cleared up. We talked about how in someway it was better being sunny because, stereotypically, scenes like the one were done with dark and dreary atmosphere.
We didn't get as much done as I'd planned but what we did get done looked great. Jessica and John worked the scene. They work really well together and I almost wish it were possible to pair the two characters again. John is much taller than both Jessica and Susanna so the staging was difficult but we made it work.
Josh had made the suggestion of getting white board to help with the lighting and we made good use of that. The way we were shooting it Jessica's back was to the sun and it was hard to get light on her face without restaging the whole scene. We used the white board to help bounce the sunlight back at her. I captured the footage afterwards and it works great.
I'm going to try and set up a days shooting by location for May. I'm using various tarps to make a tent for a trading post. I'm going to go through the script and see if I can put together all the scenes set there and shoot them in one day. It'll be a long day but we can get several scenes done. It'll also be much easier than rebuilding the same set several times.
Will keep you updated.
We shot the first scene of November Girl this morning at the PATV parking lot. The weather was pretty bad at first, windy and gray, but by the time we got shooting it had cleared up. We talked about how in someway it was better being sunny because, stereotypically, scenes like the one were done with dark and dreary atmosphere.
We didn't get as much done as I'd planned but what we did get done looked great. Jessica and John worked the scene. They work really well together and I almost wish it were possible to pair the two characters again. John is much taller than both Jessica and Susanna so the staging was difficult but we made it work.
Josh had made the suggestion of getting white board to help with the lighting and we made good use of that. The way we were shooting it Jessica's back was to the sun and it was hard to get light on her face without restaging the whole scene. We used the white board to help bounce the sunlight back at her. I captured the footage afterwards and it works great.
I'm going to try and set up a days shooting by location for May. I'm using various tarps to make a tent for a trading post. I'm going to go through the script and see if I can put together all the scenes set there and shoot them in one day. It'll be a long day but we can get several scenes done. It'll also be much easier than rebuilding the same set several times.
Will keep you updated.
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