On the day of our shoot I turned up to school rather optimistic with the preparation and organisation of our group. I thought that hopefully everything would run smoothly. Unfortunately I was wrong. After all meeting in the editing suit we found out that our actor due to play Marilyn Monroe was unable to do the shoot which was quite a setback. So our group straight away got onto finding a new Marilyn unfortunately everybody was busy and wasn’t aloud out of class. So we thought we would maybe but Gabby in the Monroe outfit as we didn’t have many other options. Unfortunately by this time Luke one of our media teachers had still not arrived at school, so we took all the male actors down to the top canteen near the studio to get them into costume so that when Luke arrived we could get shooting straight away. But just as we got all the guys into costume Luke arrived and said we were doing the office scene first. This was another setback as we were all prepared for the 50s film set scene. So we had to send all the actors away and set up for the office set. Luckily all the actors were able to return later in the day to shoot and also our Marilyn Monroe actress was able to come in the afternoon, so even though it was a big set back having to prepare a different set at least this meant we could finally have our Marilyn.
We all started preparing for the office scene. This involved sticking up lots of posters and
documents on the wall, because it was quite a big wall it took up quite a while to fill it with pictures. We got the monitors in and placed them around the room, we then also got in a white board and made it into a 'suspect board' so we filled it with pictures of suspects and writing about them. We had to set up the monitors so they would play the DVDs we had brought in, then we had to scatter documents everywhere to make it really look like somebody was investigating her life. After setting up the set we lay down the tracks for the losmandy spider dolly to go across the tracks on. This allowed us to get a smooth tracking shot of the room without the camera shacking. We managed to then get a good few tracking shots of the office scene and decided to move on to the 50s film set scene.
To prepare for the 50s film set the floor of the studio had already been painted red the day before in order for it to be dry and ready for our group using it. Also the treads that we needed were already painted red as well. We then drew a big white curtain across the back wall of the studio and flooded it with red lighting. This made the room seem like it was just like the 50’s set of ‘Diamonds Are a Girls best Friend’. Once we had the background lit and ready we brought in our home made 50’s camera and put in on a tripod, we brought in deck chairs to look like directors chairs and then filled the room with people in 50’s clothing. We also had light placed everywhere to make it look as much like a film set as we could. The tracks where laid down and then we got our smooth tracking out shots.
We all started preparing for the office scene. This involved sticking up lots of posters and
documents on the wall, because it was quite a big wall it took up quite a while to fill it with pictures. We got the monitors in and placed them around the room, we then also got in a white board and made it into a 'suspect board' so we filled it with pictures of suspects and writing about them. We had to set up the monitors so they would play the DVDs we had brought in, then we had to scatter documents everywhere to make it really look like somebody was investigating her life. After setting up the set we lay down the tracks for the losmandy spider dolly to go across the tracks on. This allowed us to get a smooth tracking shot of the room without the camera shacking. We managed to then get a good few tracking shots of the office scene and decided to move on to the 50s film set scene.
To prepare for the 50s film set the floor of the studio had already been painted red the day before in order for it to be dry and ready for our group using it. Also the treads that we needed were already painted red as well. We then drew a big white curtain across the back wall of the studio and flooded it with red lighting. This made the room seem like it was just like the 50’s set of ‘Diamonds Are a Girls best Friend’. Once we had the background lit and ready we brought in our home made 50’s camera and put in on a tripod, we brought in deck chairs to look like directors chairs and then filled the room with people in 50’s clothing. We also had light placed everywhere to make it look as much like a film set as we could. The tracks where laid down and then we got our smooth tracking out shots.
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