The Shoot

This shoot was probably one of the quickest shoots I have ever done.

We arrived and set up, which only took an hour or so because we had planned the lighting set up a few weeks prior and then my model arrived. She was really nice and helpful and was really good at pretending to catwalk.

We were using two cameras, one for the front view and one for a profile shot, so it was just a case of shooting the different distances. I had decided to do a full length head to toe, a head to knee, a head to hip and a head and shoulders shot so I had options and a variety of shots. I did two takes of every shot so that I had choices, I realise two takes isn't a lot but because it was just a walking on the spot shot, it wasn't really necessary to have loads of takes.

The piece of music I have for this is 1 minute 41 seconds, but because I will be cutting between shots I didn't need each walk to be that long, so we did 30 second walks. In the end it only took about 20 minutes for the whole shoot and I had 16 pieces of footage to play with.

I was so happy with the footage and with the model I had managed to get, I think that having someone feature in it who actually looks like a model will add that extra production value to the whole video.