We firstly started placing the camera at various places and angles so we could see if the shot worked using the dimensions we wanted to use. The dimensions are shown in the photo below. The figure, ideally, needs to be placed a few mm above the frame with double the space above his head to the top of the frame. This replicable shot set up entitles us to move from clip to clip/dance to dance without any major disorientation and the video also flows smoothly.
The set up of the camera tended to be rather difficult in terms of the lens we were given. The high mm lens meant that everything tended to be rather 'zoomed' in even when standing far away from the dancer. This meant that:
- We could not get everything in shot that we originally wanted to
- The character had to stand far from the tripod and hard communication meant the clips had to frequently stop to confer.
- However, we found that after we managed to get through every required move in each costume we could act more efficiently in terms of how much time we were spending on each costume and thus how much battery and card memory we were using.
- Also, for the second shot at the football club we were able to replicate the rough distance from the camera and the figure more effectively once we had more experience of what the distance had always been in the past.
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