Success!

My first collaborative shoot went off without a hitch, thankfully. We filmed the promo for Seven Minutes With Beibhinn over the past two days, and we didn't have a single catastrophe, which is more than I can say for some of the other projects I've worked on. Oh, by the way, David Wolfe and Stephen Fennesy's production is now a comedy drama called Seven Minutes With Beibhinn, unfortunately there were some complications with filming in the seminary. Probably should have mentioned that first. Ah well.

Everything was well organised, call sheets, shooting schedule, and top notch food. It's safe to say any potential chaos was avoided, and all was calm. The camera (Sony NXCAM) was a real pleasure to use, once I got the hang of it, the white balancing was a little finnicky at first. The zoom and focus are smooth as butter, and it's got a lot of features. The shots were mostly static and simple, which gave me some time to get back into the swing of working a camera, but at the same time, I'd love to try some more difficult ones to see what it can really do. We found that the lights cast fairly obvious hard shadows even with diffusers, so we just bounced them off the ceiling, using them as fills, combined with natural light.

So the shoot went well, I'll be giving away more detail during the presentation of course, but that's it for now. Next up, sound recording for Isolation.