Jib Test #2

Today we had another test of the jib in the street, and also a bit later in the circus with wheels on (Lee and I both had a few concerns, which I will talk about more in this post). 

The jib test for the street went really well, and we have a lovely shot. We also used the lighting set up/already built for the street. The director originally wanted to use the bird in the lamp post as a framing device. We still included it, but couldn't get the jib at the right angle for the originally planned shot. So we started it on some textured wall, track to see a sign of a shop, reach the bird on the lamppost, track down the lamp post (this was to avoid the wooden canvas in the background, which we later fixed by shining a red head through it so the painting on it would shine through. It looks fab!), and keep going down until we see the people entering the circus. We did a few other variations too starting from the sign of the pub, but this one was our favourites. We also got Chloe to light up the bird on the lamp post with an LED lamp (on 5500k to match the other lights).

We then moved the jib into the circus to try out the shot again. The director wanted to try putting it on wheels so we could move back away from the wall we had to track up last time. This turned out as a huge fail, as we just didn't have the room, and was really awkward to wheel back. 

Blurry pic but you get the idea!

Special shout out to Yiannis and Chloe for helping us out on this test shoot!