To get the props to college, we had planned to go to the location by tube and then get a cab back with the props. When we reached Film Medical Services we saw this.
The problem was that the props were way too big to get into a cab. A person from the store said that there is a company called Deadline which could pick it up and deliver it to us, so we booked them for the pick next morning and we planned to shoot at 6 pm.
We had one more problem, and that was the floor in the room was green and when removing the green screen even the floor would transparent. This would make the actor look like they are floating. We weren’t sure what to do with this. The next thing I did was speak to Christos and he arranged for something to cover the floor.
We all had a role to play in the shooting and we had a worksheet so that everyone knows what their task is.
I had to do a few things before the shoot: the first thing was to set up the camera. For the shoot we used Blackmagic 4K. I was new to the Blackmagic ecosystem, I had to watch YouTube videos on how to use it. I am familiar with Sony, Canon and Nikon but I am not familiar with Blackmagic so I took this chance to get to know it better.
My second task was to set up the lights. We used the lights that the room had to offer and kept the kelvin between 6000K to 7000K. I went with these lighting settings because the hospital generally has cooler lights, other than those lights, we used 2 Amaran P60c these were RGB lights and we could control the colours via a phone this helped us a lot and this was easier than using gel sheets.
For the audio, I chose a boom mic with a zoom h4 recorder. I played around with the settings to get cleaner audio.
I had to do the post-production like compositing the green screen and editing the video, so I told Xiaoyan that we should only capture dislodges for the actors when shooting the video and later I would add the sound effect in the post, but she wanted to play the sound effect while the shoot which I felt was not a good idea.