The second time we tried shooting in the green screen room, we had an alternate storyboard prepared. Lauren was the loan shark and Steve, her husband, was the ghost. We brought in an extra set of lights as we had some trouble with lighting the legs the first time.
We had only booked the room for the morning and we spent over an hour just setting up the lights, camera, mic..basically getting ready. We had to try different light settings to get it right. We used pink gels this time as they were less intense.
After all this was done, we only had less than an hour left for proper shooting. I was at the camera and was directing Steve together with Lauren. I had some trouble getting used to zooming in and out at a steady pace and Steve had to do the same scenes a few times until we both got it right. (Steve with the acting, and myself with the camera)
Mark Power even came in to have a look and help us out. He gave us his skull and another set of lights, which turned out to be very useful. We never got to use the Fluro light after all though, but the setting was much better this time.
By the end of the session we only got about 1-2 min of footage. We actually never got around to using that footage AT ALL, because after some initial testing we realised it was no good.
We did learn a lot from that session tho. We realised we needed more lights on the floor, since there was a BIG difference in how well the background and the floor was lit. I got a bit more comfortable using the camera and we could not set up everything a lot quicker for the next session.
During studio class later the same day, Mark showed me how to crop, resize and use a mask on a movie. He showed me how to use two different layers of the same movie, so that different settings can be applied to different parts of it. That was useful to solve the problem of badly lit legs.
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