This weekend we shot our footage for our teenage interview. Everything went smoothly during and after the 2 hour drive up to Raleigh.
I arrived first and immediately started readying all my camera and lighting equipment that I had laid out in my overheads. I set the ursa settings as I liked and needed them, and by the time all that was done Mariah and Kebba had arrived.
They met with the subjects first (I had been waiting outside like a creep) and soon Alex Matthews, who was our stand-in sound operator, and I had begun checking out the situation for sound and lighting in the room and started bringing in the equipment. There was a slight delay because of maids who were cleaning the house, but it really didn't take that long.
Soon we were ready to begin shooting. I set up cameras to have a low F stop so that we could focus on the subjects and blur out backgrounds as much as possible. This would keep the audience from being distracted by the bases of some C stands that were in my shots on one camera. We didn't have much space to work with, and as a result I did not have much choice but to get around them as efficiently as possible.
One of our cameras was set up on a Monfratto, but the other I was manually operating on a shoulder mount with no sticks. I had done this before, but for several reasons this interview made the setup a lot more difficult for me to keep a steady camera.
Regardless the interview came out well, and when combined with B roll I was able to capture before and after the shoot I'm sure the scene will be a success.
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