Filming day - wednesday

Our first day of filming(photography) and I was really excited to get on, wanting to get as much done as possible, luckily Robyn was in the same mind set allowing us to get a good start. Unfortunately we didn't get as far as we had initally planned, however looking back on the day considerring all the obsticles we had as well as the different prep work taking longer than expected, we managed to complete about half of the whole film. Some of the set backs were the decorating the gingerbread men and getting the camera settings right.

The start of the day was staging the set which didn't take long as we just needed a clear section of the kitchen counter top, once that was cleared and cleaned ready, we had to set up the lighting which consisted of the over head lights in the kitchen plus two table lamps that we could make close to the action. The lamps went either ends of the counter, although one was too close and create too much shadow. Therefore we made a tower for the lamp to sit on taking it further away from the action and spreading out the light.

 
f16                                       f8

 

f5.6                                     f4.5

The next stage was decorating the gingerbread men, first we had to match up the various positions and then copy the design, matching the jelly tots and bow ties.

Other technicalities we came across we were able to fix. Such as, in order to lift the tray an appropriate height we needed to build another tower, so, we came up with the bowl and margarine, seeing that together they came to practically the same height as the larger gingerbread men.

Another was that when lifting the tray the gingerbread men couldn’t take the weight and kept falling, so, as a solution, George’s mum helped us to create the cardboard supports of which we glued the gingerbread men to so that they were supported enough.