Since the last time I tried shooting something around the house a lot has happened.
Just before Aaron pulled the trigger on the day he met Jeremy he found out that Jeremy's brother is Benson, an old time friend of Aaron. He obviously changed his mind about harming the poor fella and since then Jeremy and Aaron became best friends, well, how ever Aaron defines 'best friend' on the day. Anyway, fucking Jeremy is sleeping on my sofa, in our living room and does what ever Aaron tells him to do. He is not a bad guy, he is just sleeping on my fucking sofa.
Yesterday Aaron told me that he invited a prospect business partner to meet him and Jeremy. He said the meeting has a lot to do with all the boxes in the garage so he will conduct the meeting there and if I want to shoot it, I'm allowed to.
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Lets talk logistics. Two problems I had before this shoot. The first was, the garage is very small so I had to find a way to restrict my lighting and not to wash out the room with ambient light. The second problem was the fact there were going to be three people in this meeting, so I probably need two cameras. I called my friend Zoran who shoot weddings on weekends and fixes car engines on weekdays and asked him to come and help. He was priceless.
He suggested I make a snoot on small lights. That will give the garage a moody lighting, almost film noir. I liked that, and so I created the snoots you can see in the video tutorial below.
The DIY tutorial can be found here in HD
For the shoot we used two 5D mark II. Zoran's was on a monopod and mine was on the shoulder rig from the last test shot. The audio was recorded on an H4N tapes to the garage ceiling.
I hope Aaron and Jeremy will be OK.
Equipment used:
2 x 5D Mark II
2 x Canon 50mm f/1.4
5 DIY snooted desk lamps
1 DIY Soft Boxed desk lamp
Zoom H4N
DIY Shoulder Rig (tutorial)
Shot and edited over a weekend.
