Photo shoot (Posters)

Date: Friday 15th December 2017

Time: 15:20-16:15 (as part of filming day 5)
Personnel needed: Matthew Herriott (Camera/director/Christopher), Evie Brookes-Payne (Producer/Mya Brown), Kim Wright (DR Goodwin)
Props: Mya's file
Equipment: I-Pad (Camera)




Location (Poster 1):

Location (Poster 2):

Though taking the pictures for our posters would not be something that would take as long as a filming session, it was still going to demand as many takes and as much thought going into who/what we wanted where and how we wanted them.

When we originally started to think about the idea for the first poster, though we did not choose this idea over any others we might come up with on the grounds that it would be simpler/easier to shoot, we thought it might have been slightly easier to get the right conditions than it was. Of course, creating a sufficiently dark room with little or no light sources was never going to be easy, but eliminating all of the undesirable sources of light proved to be more difficult than we first anticipated. And then getting the right source of light such that it wasn't too dim for the camera whilst also not being too bright to ruin the effect was not easy either. Thankfully, we were eventually able to produce roughly what we wanted (though it was not as perfect as we had first hoped for).

The second picture was much more difficult to get than the first because here we needed to give positioning and space between the two featured characters (DR Goodwin and Mya Brown) some serious thought because we wanted to make sure that both characters fit in the frame (though you might think we'd just take a landscape shot to cover this particular problem, Evie insisted that the shots we take be portrait). Thankfully, we took a couple of shots that we could make work: one that featured both characters, and another of each character taken separately with Evie saying that she would edit the two together at a later point.