Documentary - intervju test

Today my group decided to do a test shoot for our interview to see how long it would take to rig and get ready for a shoot and to rig down and to test out the equipment we will be using.

Rigging up went pretty well and took about 40 minutes. We didn't get the big LED light for the test shot so we got more shadow on our test presenter and interviewee than we'd have if we had the big light. Another way we could have sorted out the shadows, especially the ones on the wall, could be to move the interviewee away from the fall. That way we would eliminate the big shadow behind Jason's head. Unfortunately, we didn't think of that when we were filming.
Another issue we had was that on one of the cameras we were planning to use (Canon 600D) didn't have the option of 'Kelvin' when choosing white balance. We therefore chose to use the uni's 7D instead since we need to be able to put the white balance on the same level on every camera when shooting multi-camera. Sound wise the set-up went pretty well. We decided to do the set-up with the clip mics on a zoom instead of using the TASCAM since using the zoom would be easier and the sound quality was still very good.

When editing the footage I noticed that some parts of the footage were grainy. We'll fix that when shooting the actual interview by using more lights, try to avoid dark areas with little light (if we can't fix it with the lights we have)  and to use lenses that have lower aperture when filming where there might be a risk of the footage being grainy.

Test shoot at uni from Trine Hagan on Vimeo.

The equipment we will be using for the interview is:
Camera:
- Canon 7D
- Canon 70D
- Canon 60D
Lenses:
- x2 50mm f/1.8
- 24-70mm f/2.8
- 70-200mm f/2.8
- Some standard lenses (f/4.5) and wide lenses
Sound:
- Zoom
- 2x Røde mics
- 2x Clip mics
- Boom mic
Lights:
- 2x Small LED lights
- 2x Ring lights
- Standard LED
Extra
- 2x batteries for every camera
- 2x Memory cards for every camera
- Reflector
- Shoulder rig