Shooting and Technology 101

Shooting Schedule

A shooting schedule is a detailed project plan that gives all necessary information about all the elements involved in a film making. It contains details about actors, locations, technicians, special effects, vehicles, animals etc. related to the production of a film. For my particular film, our shooting schedule goes as follows:

Saturday, March 2nd: 

     1:00 PM:  

Pierce Thomas (Director), Katelyn Wagner (Me - Cinematographer), and Robert Thomas (Actor) all are to meet up at Pierces residence and carpool in Roberts vehicle to our shooting location at Super 8 Motel in Tampa, Fl.

     2:00 PM:

Check-in time for our motel room

     4:00 PM:

Editor (Ben Isaacs) and Production Designer (Bianca Raby) are to arrive at the filming location to begin filming. Check-out time is at 1:00 PM Sunday afternoon, so we can stay as long as necessary to film.

Technology

During the production stage, we will be using lots of technology to make our film top notch. The most dominant pieces of technology are the cameras being used. We will be renting Mr. Engles Canon EOS Rebel T4i, and we will be using my personal camera, a Canon EOS Rebel T3i as well. These cameras are capable of full or standard HD video recording, have automatic or manual modes of focus, exposure, etc., and has a flip-out LCD viewfinder screen which makes the recording process much more user friendly. Along with that, the manual modes of the camera allow us to chose how we want the film to look and give us a much wider range of creative freedom. With experimentation, Pierce and I were even able to figure out how to create a rack focus on our cameras before filming. 

Along with the Canon's, we also used iPhones. Most of our cast/crew have iPhones, with my personal phone being the iPhone X, the most advanced out of the group. We will be able to use its high camera quality as a replacement for when complex shots are too hard to achieve on the Canon's (such as high angle shots, or when the camera cannot fit in the space we need to film from. The small iPhone camera will be of use.) Along with that, my iPhone X is very good with filming under low light, whereas the Canon's can struggle with quality under such lighting.

Lighting is also a huge requirement! We will be able to use our flashlights on our phones to get basic lighting that could even out or add shadows where deemed necessary. Along with that, Pierce and I have discussed collecting other forms of light. I will bring some handheld flashlights with a yellow/warmer light, and he will bring industrial lights which are used to light up fields outside at night. These also give off warmer tones of light, but give off a larger quantity of light at once.

Sources:

https://definitions.uslegal.com/s/shooting-schedule/

https://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/canon-rebel-t3i/