Dance Film - Shooting

BTS from day 1 of shooting

The team we got for the shoot consisted of

Myself - Director / Art Director / D.O.P / Model

Grace - Producer / Model

Nina Sayuri Noriega Sato - AD

Alice Ball - Gaffer

Junaid Zaheer - Best Boy

Danielle Winter - Hand Dancer

Ciara Rose Goldfinch - Set design

Rufaro Maumbe - Camera Op

Before the day of shooting began I was a bit of a mess but thats just me and my overthinking brain but once we got the first shots done I got in the swing of being on a set and slotted into my role. The day was segmented into the White shots, and the Blue shots, and Day 2 was the Red and Orange sections. Throughout the shooting I worked closely with everyone to make sure they were happy, I worked especially close with AD, Camera, and Gaffer so we could keep organised and creating the best we could. The only big bumps in the road were that on day 1 we realised we had a problem with our 24mm lens and had to switch all the 24mm shots too 50mm. Following this on Day 2 we had some unexpected morning absence from Nina as she had fallen ill but Alice stepped up to take over the AD roll for the morning and we had to do the call sheet in reverse to keep the flow. From this I left both shoot days feeling satisfied but upon reflection on the footage I noticed that some footage was slightly out of focus or ever so slightly too dark, something I just didn't notice on the small GH4 camera screen. but from this myself and grace regrouped and did a quick reshoot of some shots and some new additional ones that in the end I feel greatly enhanced the film. 

BTS from shoot day 2