Highlights/Challenges Faced/Lessons Learned:
- iPhone for closeup
- Logitech for wide shot/full length
- at2020 USB for mic
- Ring light
- This was filmed as vlog#7, launched as vlog#11
- Spent about 1 hour before the shoot to SET-UP the 2 cameras, ring light, & microphone in their places
- Cleaned the studio the night before – spent about an hour!
- Time taken to film: ~ 2 hours
- Rehearsals = 1 on camera & on location (in my “frame”)! And, rehearsed lines off-camera!
- Took 2 extra shots dedicated for photos only – slow moving deliberate shots, so that the moving “photo” gets captured properly in a movie!
- Took a short recess after every section, to drink water & to do makeup touchups
- Since vlog#4, I’ve been doing makeup touchups on location itself as it is full of mirrors, duh! THIS IS ALSO HOPING, I GET SOME NICE SHOTS! HAHA
- Reviewed the takes on the fly – after every take reviewed it! This gave my throat a break as well. Numbered the takes as I reviewed them on the go!
- Can’t remember when exactly, I switched to filming out of sequence, with the closeups first then all the wide shots – this way, makeup is fresh for a while at least!
- DID NOT TAKE COMPLETE END-TO-END SHOTS! IT ACCOUNTS FOR NOTHING, IN THE END just adds up to more takes to review and is time consuming!!!
- Made a dedicated column on my script to take notes of the number of takes against the respective sections – this helps a lot during final review before editing!
- Made dedicated rows in the shot list for takes for “moving” shots
- NEW! After take B10, I was interrupted by the sound of the lawn mower outside. So, I went out of sequence and filmed shot B16 and B17, cuz these are for photos and the sound or the noise rather, does not really matter. Once these were done and the lawn mower gone, resumed filming of shot B11. Had to wait a few minutes for him to go! Improvisation based upon the unexpected happens naturally after you are well prepared for the expected!
- NEW! Placed my full length mirror behind the dresser, so as to capture the full length and hopefully get the zipper on my skinny suede pants! We’ll see. Lol
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