Panache Screen Test/Audition

On Saturday 21st Bec and I conducted some screen tests at the first location we're planning to shoot at. We also incoporated her audition into these tests and they gave us a very good insight into the problems we're going to face shooting at that particular location.

The two most significant problems are:

1. The location faces north so during the middle of the day the sun beams directly down at the camera causing lens flares and washed out footage. We're going to have to shoot late afternoon after the sun drops behind the hills to avoid this.
   
   
2. There is a busy road nearby and the traffic is picked up by the microphone. A shotgun microphone might help to reduce this but a boom microphone might be even better. Failing that the sound track may have to incorporate the background noise.
   

Aside from that my camera work is terrible and some of the shots involve dialogue or interaction with another character. As there were no other actors or stand-ins Bec had to image them.


The blog entries have been arranged in anti-chronological order so when you scroll down you're seeing the screen tests in the order they appear in the script.

Finally, these videos are in 16:9 aspect but YouTube "cuts" them down to 4:3 and heavily compresses so their quality isn't very good.