Sunburn and barnacles
Today was an interesting day at work. Both of the shows for the fall tour are integrating a lot of video within the scenes and as scenery. For Music of Dolphins one video short is a clip of the "rescue" of the girl. So a group of us packed up the camera, mic and makeup and headed down to the Windward side to film.
We got bonus footage...the fire department search and rescue unit was training at one of the beaches along the route to our destination. Training to repel from a hovering helicopter. A quick conversation with the fire chief later and we were filming the men drop one at a time. Perfect footage for a news clip about the search and rescue of out little feral dolphin girl.
It turns out this particular beach was better suited to our needs...rockier, more coverage, and far less populated. As it was, we had a curious child come up to our director and nude stocking clad, barnacle covered actress. But we were fairly uninterrupted for the three hours we filmed her crawling over the rocks and then pinned down by the rescue crew.
Three hours in the sun. And not an ounce of sunscreen between us all.
I have my reservations about how well the video projection will work into the plays. I have full faith in our videographer. Both he and the sound designer are amazing. I have less faith in the others. The saving grace of this theatre is the outside talent they bring in.
It is just a job.
We got bonus footage...the fire department search and rescue unit was training at one of the beaches along the route to our destination. Training to repel from a hovering helicopter. A quick conversation with the fire chief later and we were filming the men drop one at a time. Perfect footage for a news clip about the search and rescue of out little feral dolphin girl.
It turns out this particular beach was better suited to our needs...rockier, more coverage, and far less populated. As it was, we had a curious child come up to our director and nude stocking clad, barnacle covered actress. But we were fairly uninterrupted for the three hours we filmed her crawling over the rocks and then pinned down by the rescue crew.
Three hours in the sun. And not an ounce of sunscreen between us all.
I have my reservations about how well the video projection will work into the plays. I have full faith in our videographer. Both he and the sound designer are amazing. I have less faith in the others. The saving grace of this theatre is the outside talent they bring in.
It is just a job.
posted by Unknown at
10:33 PM
1 Comments:
I can't believe that the search and rescue team actually training with a helicopter was a coincidence. If I were the production manager and I had to plan a shoot like this the FIRST thing I would do would be to get on the phone to search and rescue and ask when and if they were ever doing anything we could film. Amazing...
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