Filming Day 2

Filming the Choreography and Street Scene

On Sunday the 27th November and Monday 28th November, we are going to film the choreography and the street scenes.

Monday: We travelled to my dad's film studio down in Meng Jai district Bangkok to film the choreography scene. For the choreography scene, we wanted a white background in a white room to represent the protagonist's internal thoughts. There will be three cameras set in the room at different areas of the room. Also, a small camera with a stabilizer will also be taken handheld for close ups of the dance moves and the dancers.

Filming Studio

On Tuesday evening, we left school at around 5:30 in the late afternoon to Meng Jai, a district in downtown Bangkok. We went to my dad's studio at his office to film the dance scene.

Equipment:

Canon 5D Mark II
Manfrotto Tripod
Stabilizer
4K Studio Lights
Blue 4K filters

As we settled into the studio, we started setting up equipment with the help of my father's crew who set up the 4K lights that is hazard in high voltage. We adjusted the tripod of the camera in its initial composition whilst the dancers were rehearsing their routine. As the lighting became in place, I adjusted the White Balance on my camera to 3200 Kelvins in order to match the lighting of the studio to make a blue/grey mood.

The first few takes were videos of the three dancers dancing together in the frame of the camera. First two takes were done zoomed out to the entire body and the other two taken zoomed into the body. The shots were also taken with a shake pan on the tripod to give a mood of a shake due to the dropping of the beat to the music. The other takes, we took the video of the dancers dancing on their own individually. The process was completed around 9:30 in the evening through number of breaks and takes and overall, everything went well.

This is the footage of the atmosphere of the take:

In conclusion, the day we filmed at my dad's studio went well, there was a little problem in time management which should have been done earlier in the day. But the outcome would still be the same because the scene does not rely on natural lighting. But it would have benefitted the dancers and the crew because some of us live far away and still have other pieces of work to do.

Here is a vlog of the day where we filmed the dancing scene: