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Shooting cinematic performance footage

Shooting cinematic performance footage

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Shooting cinematic performance footage

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We're shooting in a space that is not super visually dynamic. It is a room painted black. There's some nice purple seats in it. There's some very nice lights on the wall. But overall to be spending a day in here shooting, it's hard to find a lot of variety. In an effort to break that up and in an effort to create a rhythm within the finished piece, I decided that I wanted today's shooting to have two different looks. I wanted it to look like a rehearsal, which meant Steven. Street clothes, just fluorescent house lighting and maybe a little rough around the edges in terms of the work that he was doing, what we're showing. And then I wanted something that looked more like a final performance. I wanted theatrical lighting, I wanted him in his performance wear, and I wanted him dong a full on, committed, uninterrupted performance. That second bit there that performance bit gave me I'm hoping is going to give me a few options. In the editing it's going to allow me to show some passage of…

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