R+P Post 29: Rehearsals

The schedule for the rehearsal week

We arranged a meeting with the other groups in our class to decide who would use the studio when. This was based on how convenient which times were for each group, based on when we had free periods/lessons. Our rehearsal shoots will be on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. This is useful because we will be able to use the days in between our shoots to watch over the footage we get and then change our plans accordingly for other rehearsals.

In some of the slots on the sheet, some of the members of the group were not free, so we marked them with letters to indicate who would bee able to be there (E= Eddie, I= Iggy, M=Mario).

The glow-in-the-dark paints

We used rehearsals to try out various ideas we had. One of the first things we tested was the glow in the dark paint we had bought for the shoot. We wanted to see if it showed up well on camera, and when we realised that it did not work effectively, we decided to shift the main focus of the pitch black scene to the glow sticks.

Testing the lighting

We spent a large portion of our time in the studio trying to get the lighting to look right. We wanted to make the backgrounds different colours, we initially thought that this would be a simple procedure however in practice it turned out to be a lot more complex. The coloured light went onto our actors, which made them look very weird. We tried sorting this out with white balancing, but it did not work and in the end we decided to use greenscreen for backgrounds instead, this worked out well since it allowed us more creativity in the creation of our backgrounds, helping us make the video more dreamlike and surreal.