Holly Probert DFSA Productions

work shop with two dancers. So today we took part in a workshop with Rachel where we were lucky enough to have two dancers with us from Rachel’s university in london. They had choreographed a piece of dance for us to watch which was lovely. It included small lifts and was in a contemporary style. After this we were asked to get up with our cameras and video them, be the camera, move among them, film anyway we would like and see the dance from various different angles and perspectives. At first it’s fair to saw we were all a bit shy of filming the dancers, Rachel then asked us if anyone wanted to experiment with the dancers to do with their own ideas. Alice stepped forward and discussed her ideas. She is working with Danielle, and they plan on working with luminescent body paint, a canvas and a dancer, the premis being that the dancer will be making art whilst doing/through art. So Rachel thought about how the dancers would cover themselves in paint and asked them to take a journey ...

My role: On the studio shoot I took on the role of Gaffer. I worked under our cinematographer and I worked beside/within the camera team. As gaffer I worked alongside Chris in order to get to grips with the lights and he walked me through how to use the switch board and dimmer switches on the sky lights.  We didn’t have a lighting plan set in stone for the shoot. The director told me he wanted it flooded, but not too much that you couldn’t see the texture of the set. So I used two 4K lights as back lights. I used two of the sky lights to light from above, and used one huge powerful light, which I can’t currently think of the name for, to really flood out the rest of the set. As well as this we had a window on the left wall of the set. The director told me he wanted that lit, so chris and I used a huge piece of poly board, a clamp and a 1K light to achieve this. We positioned the board diagonally to the window, then we clamped the 1K light onto the top of the Left set wall and a...