OH - Reflection on Shoot (Paint Shoot)

When, Where and Who?

On the 10th November we decided to do a shoot for our opening which included Bradley getting covered in powder paint to personify the lyrics of "Bring Me To Life". We decided to shoot outside down by the 6th form car park as this allowed us to make as much mess as possible and not have to worry about it. Also the reason we used this location is because when we tried to do it in my utility room we had trouble with holding the sheet up so we got two lads to do it for us from the school.

The Group (left to right) Ollie, Freddie and Brad

My Role

During the shoot I took the role of the cameraman with the joint responsibility of throwing the paint at Brad as we needed it coming form both angles. But due to the size of the sheet we were limited to how much we could experiment with different shots.

How Useful Was The Shot list?

The shot list only included a few different shots so it was easy to keep on track however once we had got to the location it was clear that the sheet wasn't big enough so we had to limit the amount of shots we could use down to the single one. This being the shot of brad in a MCU.

This is the framing used for the paint shoot

What Are Your Best Shots?

As we only managed to take one shot it meant that there wasn't much margin for error, but we still managed to have a few problems with this shot so we'll probably have to do the shoot again.

Our two helpers, Alex and Patrick

Any Problematic Shots?

As we originally planned to do the shoot in my utility room, once we got there it was clear that we wouldn't be able to do this because we needed people to hold the sheet up, after this we drafted in two boys from our school to do it for us so we did it back at school. Also the wind was affecting our sheet causing it to move which was affecting the authenticity of our piece. Also at times the sheet wasn't completely in shot which caused it to affect the shots authenticity again.