Development: Week of filming for final day 2/3 : Sound studio

We did do our second day in the green screen room just for some extra shots in case our locations didn't work our well and for lighting. Mark said their was some quality issues with how the puppets looked on the high tek cameras with the green screen but eventually we found out this could be due to white balance from Malcolm. But we collected some more footage from their anyway and Mark said he would try to make it look better in the editing stages using premier. We went ahead the next day continuing filming again in the sound studio to do more conversations and because we knew how to get the lighting better with the Panasonic PMW EX1 from out tests.

We also found it easier to keep the puppets in position without help from an extra person working the camera or direction by placing the puppets on some spare lighting stands. This helped us keep the shot better while we could alter the camera settings and place the lighting differently and communicate with each other on how it looked. Also if we were in shot and hiding successfully and giving our arms a break.

We also used the laptop for our audio again and used the schedule I made to know what conversations to try out this time from the previous sessions. This also gave us the idea of how to possibly display the puppets for assessment by using some type of stand.

The session went quite well since we managed to get the sound studio booked for a full day and we had got some of the shots as successful as the test one. We now were going to shoot our next location the following day at the Hannah Maclure centre of the university of Abbertay.

Here's a sneak peak from the day of the improved original conversation from the first test.