Taking part of the Lighting Workshop which required us to work with students from the 2nd Year of Film Arts, was a chance to see how I would work with others and how well I was able to perform as an acting Director of Photography (DOP).
I wasn't in a group with my other colleagues for which I'm going to be working with on my RED project, but recently I've been able to find some upcoming work on numerous music videos for some local bands. The first of which is for the band Cheating Jack Ketch, for which I will also be working as DOP on.
So I decided that the lighting workshop would be a great place to test out, not only different lighting equipment for the music video to see how it would look, but to also gain some experience and look for constructive criticism from my fellow peers.
As it turned out the actual test shots turned out to be a complete failure, only really coming to the conclusion that the LED lights that we were testing weren't going to be any good for the music video. But the workshop was still very productive as I learned that I needed to be more prepared for the role; because we had gone into the workshop with just some brief storyboard shots which weren't prioritized beforehand, time quickly got away from us and we ended up not actually getting anywhere near the amount of footage that we wanted to test done.
After speaking to Andy Hardwick; who had be taking notes and the way we as a group had worked together, he mentioned that the standout problem was the apparent lack of organisation and mix up in communications within the crew.
From this Lighting Workshop, I feel the need to go and research the role of DOP more thoroughly so that I'm fully aware of my responsibilities on set and in pre-production.
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