Michael Pulcinella
February 13th, 2011, 08:11 AM
Be gentle! My first time shooting a play. This is an interesting excerpt from the DVD I made from it. My usual gig is producing training and lifestyle videos with top level bodybuilders, so this was very different for me!
It was a very low budget production, just an archival kind of thing for the actors, their friends and family. Still, I wanted to do as good a job as possible. We used three cameras and shot two different live performances, cutting them together to minimize audience noise and line flubs.
We had a shotgun mic on the camera closest to the stage and a lavalier hanging from the ceiling just above the actors' heads transmitting to another camera. The third camera was running unmanned in the back of the very small theater and was not used for sound.
I learned a lot from this and next time I think I would insist on more even lighting across the stage and a chance to rehearse our camera movements with the actors before shooting. We were winging it this time and missed a few key shots because of it.
Let me know how you think it flows, where you think improvements could be made.
YouTube - Holocaust denier confronts death camp survivor - Excerpt from DENIAL (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWCfxbIEyds)
It was a very low budget production, just an archival kind of thing for the actors, their friends and family. Still, I wanted to do as good a job as possible. We used three cameras and shot two different live performances, cutting them together to minimize audience noise and line flubs.
We had a shotgun mic on the camera closest to the stage and a lavalier hanging from the ceiling just above the actors' heads transmitting to another camera. The third camera was running unmanned in the back of the very small theater and was not used for sound.
I learned a lot from this and next time I think I would insist on more even lighting across the stage and a chance to rehearse our camera movements with the actors before shooting. We were winging it this time and missed a few key shots because of it.
Let me know how you think it flows, where you think improvements could be made.
YouTube - Holocaust denier confronts death camp survivor - Excerpt from DENIAL (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWCfxbIEyds)