Dance Film - Twirling Shoot Day

The shoot for this film was slightly delayed due to the weather, and since we were shooting outside we weren't able to film in the pouring rain! However, once the clouds had cleared up we went to our location and set out to film.
Luckily it was a fairly warm day which benefitted our dancer as she was in traditional costume which is a leotard, so she wasn't in the warmest of outfits. We chose a costume that she has competed in before, which is also a costume that Paige has hand made.

We set up the tripod and the camera in amongst some trees as it made a really pretty background for the shoot, but also captured a lot of light.

I worked as the camera operator on the shoot, so worked closely with Paige as she was the director and she told me what sort of shots she wanted. It was really good working with Demi as she was really confident with her routines and just kept going and repeating it so we could capture loads of footage and switch angles throughout.

The camera was really good at capturing the movement and is high quality so our footage looked really good. We were blessed that it was a bright day and not too cloudy so we only had to use natural light and didn't need any other light sources.

Luckily the location was pretty quiet so we didn't have any interruption from the general public and we weren't in anyones way. We wouldn't be using the sound from the footage so it didn't matter if there was a lot of background noise. 

The shoot went really smoothly and we managed to get all of our footage before it started raining again.