For the second shoot, we shot inside the studio, in the green screen room. We had some scenes that needed special effects in them and so the green screen was helpful for keying out these shots. This is a continuation of the factory scene and so once again our beloved conveyor belt is lapping up the camera’s attention.

The device you see on the picture is called a jib. Sometimes you see sweeping shots in a movie scene; where the camera sweeps across the floor in slow or fast motion, or sweeps up and moves away. This is what the jib does. The jib can also be used to shoot top down shots or low angles. Here the boys are fastening the camera to the jib to shoot a top down shot of the conveyor belt. Jibs can vary in sizes, the more ambitious your shots, the bigger and grander the jib.

This scene took us the whole day to shoot, but was relatively easier than the first shoot. I’ll post again when we head down to do location shooting for our next shoot.

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