Saturday, January 3, 2009

Day 186

Holy long day Batman! No really, it was a holy long day. Today I was working at my church making a video. This video has a specific purpose, but while we are shooting, were doing some stuff for other upcoming videos.

Most of what we shot today was interviews. Tomorrow I'm going to shoot a bunch of b-roll to cut in, but today was just interviews. Great stuff too. This video is about our student ministry, which is freaking awesome. Check out www.summitstudents.org and find out what's going on with them. It doesn't do any justice to hearing the stories from people though.

While all this is awesome, today's aweomosity is actually going to be fake trees. What!?!?! you say? Well, for those that don't know, when you are shooting an interview, there isn't much you can do to make it visually interesting except change the lighting. When lighting, you are more trying to control the shadows than anything else. The other major focus is the background, it has to be visually interesting. The way we did it most today was shooting light (usually with colored gels) through fake trees. When done properly, it looks really cool.

So, be awesome and creatively use some fake trees!

Have a great day, talk to you tomorrow!

1 comment:

Jennifer said...

I'd like to see this fake tree technique. post some!