PRE-PRDUCTION • Chosen Location | Development

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Our chosen location has a allowed for many different opportunities in terms of lighting and filming. Due to the larger size of the rooms, this enables us to physically put more equipment into one room, and due to the fact that we're filming with a multi-cam set up, this is really useful. 

Lighting - 

Sitcoms often use overhead lighting, which allows for more floor space to be used as they are attached to a grid on the ceiling. This isn't a possibility for us therefore our lights will have to be on stands on the ground. By choosing a location with large rooms, this means we will be able to have the lights on the ground without them getting in the way too much. I have decided the the lights will be situated close to/near the cameras so that the cameras have as much freedom as possible for move around and follow characters without and of the equipment being seen in a shot. 

The house also has large windows which gives us the opportunity to use lots of natural lighting. The large windows and french doors let in a vast amount of light which in one of my lighting test shoots showed that artificial light was not need for certain rooms and specific shots. For example, this shot from the character Claire's scene in Draft Script 1 didn't require any artificial lighting as the natural light window the french doors was strong enough to light the shot. This was also filmed at 11am on a slightly overcast day.

Test Shoot - Claire's Scene (Script Draft 1) - Natural Lighting, Panasonic DVX200


Cameras - 

Due to the fact that we are filming with a Multi-camera shoot, this requires a relatively large amount of space to fit in all 3 cameras, as there are many other factors that have to be considered and not just fitting them all in the room. It's important to follow 180 degree rule so the cameras don't cross the line and following in the 30 degree rule to make sure that the cameras are far enough apart from each other so that the shots don't look too similar and appear as a jump cut when played in succession. 



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