This assignment was killer.  I picked the scene I did because I thought it had enough interesting and varied shots while still being relatively simple: no audio, two subjects, simple location.  I started to realize I may have picked a scene that was harder than I initially thought when I made the shot list.  There ended up being way more shots and set-ups than I anticipated, and many of them required equipment I didn’t have access to.  However, that was an obstacle I thought I could work around.  It was the location that ended up being the biggest hurdle for me to get over.  Many of the places I was looking at weren’t right, and then the ones that were decent were the ones that I couldn’t get permission to shoot in. I was without a location up until the day before we were scheduled to shoot.  The location I ended up using was pretty close, I think.  I had to make my own music station, and that looked pretty dumb, but it was passable.  Some of the surface divisions weren’t there in the space, though.

            Come shooting day, we had a few obstacles with equipment.  I dropped the ball on remembering to look for power sources when I went to the location and so there weren’t any outlets for us to plug our lights into without stingers, so we weren’t able to light the scene at all.  Luckily, there were big overhead lights that matched the scene lighting, but I would’ve liked to control it more.  There are things that don’t match.  We also tried our best to get some of the dolly shots, but the quick ones were hard to do.  There were some shots we were able to match really easily, but others were hard to figure out and I think we could’ve tried harder to really figure them out.