R+P Post 29: Rehearsals

The rehearsal schedule

We've met with the other 2 groups to allocate time slots in the studio for our rehearsal week. This has been done based on when we're free and we've tried to allocate equal times for everyone.

Our groups slots were the blue ones meaning we had chunks on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. If there was an initial by the letter (I for Iggy, E for Eddie and M for Mario), this was when only that person could make the time slot. This was dictated by lessons. The even spread of our slots was useful as we could rehearse or get footage, review it and then make changes or try something else based on what we had seen.


We decided to test an initial idea we had for glow in the dark paint. To the left, the video shows our paint test which needed to be charged with light. Unfortunately, the paint didn't show on camera so we needed to rethink this idea.

We found this was a good opportunity to try some camera techniques also with our actress. As seen below, we're attempting to get the camera movement and opening of Shayam's eyes in sync as Eddie films and I direct.

We attempted to use the lighting rig to light our backdrop as we hadn't settled on the greenscreen idea yet. This proved problematic as we couldn't get our actors to stand out from the background, however, it was good that we were facing these issues now rather than in the real shoot. 

Overall, I would say that the rehearsals were really useful as it gave us an opportunity to experiment and try out some of our techniques but still allowing enough time to change an idea if it didn't work e.g. the glow in the dark paint.