For this shooting day, due to her help on the last shoot day, I asked Nisserin to come along with me again for this day, so she can help with the filming and any new ideas I need for more shots.
Open arrival, I had a chat with Rachel and Steve, who makes sure all of the items are looked after, and they gave me a few improvements to the script to make the content more factual. Then once we had that chat, we went into the room and set up the white screen and the table, ready to shot the artistic shots of the objects.
When shooting the objects we made sure to treat them with care, and I experimented with the different angles and compositions I could do with the objects. I made sure to get more shots than I actually needed, so the editing process is a little easier and less stressful. There weren't as many details to the silver plate and the paperweight, and I didn't need to get as many shots of these objects compared to the large amount of shots I got of the ship model. This meant that we finished shooting the objects at a good time, and we still had time to shoot the other interior shots.
We started with the Hulks interior, as it right next door to the other room we were in. As expected, it was quite dark through the camera which meant I had to increase the ISO creating a grainy effect to the image. We used our own external light sources to help, which worked to an extent, but when looking at the footage I actually thought the grainy affect added to the tone of the prison ship. It added to the darkness and historicalness of the story, so I wasn't overly worried about it.
Then once getting all of the shots within the Hulks interior, we went to the Charles Dickens area which bought up the potential glare problem. However, when filming the objects behind the glass, I didn't find that there was a glare in the camera. The glass didn't seem to effect the camera and neither did the lighting which was a really good thing. I also managed to get some really good close ups of the objects that were on the desk behind the glass.
The last shots I needed to get were in the Court Hall, so we made our back to that location and set up ready for a LS and ceiling shots. It was quite empty, with only a few people in the room, so I was able to get the establishing shot I wanted to get, while also getting good close ups of the ceiling and the portrait of Sir Cloudesley. Then when we got all of the shots at the museum, we travelled over to riverside to get some river shots that would work within the river sections of some of the videos.
Overall, this shoot day went really well and I got all of the shots I needed. We were given quite a lot of freedom with what we could and couldn't film which I found really helpful. Rachel and Steve both trusted us to do what we needed to do, while also being around if we had any queries or concerns.
I'm really happy with the footage I managed to film and I'm confident it will edit together well.
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