Our whole shoot will be filmed in the studio since we want to make this video performance based. We, therefore, have no location shoots which makes things a little simpler as we don't have to worry about carrying kit from one place to another and can just continually film in the studio. To your right is a picture of the studio without the cyclorama out.
Our technical kit list was:
- Canon 5D Mark II camera
- 50mm Canon Lens
- 24mm - 105mm Canon Lens
- Floor Lamps
- Turrent Lamps
- Tripod
- Dolly
- Cyclorama
- Spare Batteries
- 2 SD cards
- Lighting Rig
- Lighting Desk
- TV Screen
Lectern with:
- Mac Book Pro
- Tablet which controls certain features
- Studio Sound System
Kit and Intentions:
This is the camera (Canon 5D Mark II) we used throughout the whole shoot. It had very high resolution filming capabilities and the lenses could be changed to adapt whichever type of shot we were trying to film.
This is the 50mm lens on the Canon 5D Mark II camera. This lens allowed us to take really crisp shots even when the aperture was really high and have more depth of field.
This is the 24-105mm lens on the Canon 5D Mark II Camera. This lens allowed us to zoom really far into the shot and is useful for shooting from afar and getting extreme close up shots if needed.
These are the floor lights that we will be using. You can put coloured filter papers on top of them to get a different coloured light to the normal white light. They have barn doors so you adjust how much light comes through, dials to control the intensity and also knobs which controls how flooded or spotted the light is.
This is the turret light that we will use to create the spotlights for our individual spotlight shots. Our technician advised us that this was the best light to use for the spotlights as you can again adjust the intensity, the colour and how flooded or spotted the spotlight is. It also creates a light which forms as a perfect circle.
In the bottom right corner of the picture to your right you can see the tripod that we used. It helped with all the static shots as if we tried to do it handheld it would have been quite shaky. For the moving shots where we track and pan we used a dolly, which is essentially putting the tripod on wheels. This allowed us to track our shots really smoothly and effectively. Behind Gift is the cyclorama that we will be using. It allows us to have a white backdrop to shine the lights onto to create a professional studio look as well.
This is the lighting rig which has lights all the way around the studio meaning you can light it from all different angles and all different colours and intensities depending on how you would like it. You can also use the sticks to move the lights either up or down, left or right and you can also make them more spotted or more flooded.
To the left is the lighting desk and to the right is the monitor which controls all the lights on the lighting rig and also the house lights. If we want to adjust any of the lights, we have to do it from here.
This is the TV which we can plug into the camera using a HDMI cable to view whatever's on the camera on the TV in a magnified version which allows us to see the lighting of the shots and framing more easily. It also means when we have no one else to film for us we can film ourselves using the TV as guidance to make sure we are dancing/performing in the shot.
This is a picture of the lectern where there is a MacBook, tablet which controls certain features in the studio like houselights, blinds, windows etc. It also controls the sound system of the studio and you can adjust the volume using it. We used the MacBook to play the audio.
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