One of the other things I had a look at were my camera setups. I decided to design some floor plans with the positions of the cameras based on Danny's shot list. This would help me a lot to organize myself on the day of the shoot, so I don't have to be testing where I am going to be positioned and how I will try to get the shot he wants. Of course this will probably change in the next months or on the same shooting day if we come up with a better idea or if Danny decides to change a shot. I had a look and learned quite a lot about floor planning back in the days of our studio production, with Hans, so I went back and had a look at the set design we worked on and how he told me to make get enough coverage. Although a live production is not the same as what we doing, idea behind the floor plan and the camera positions is still the same. It is important to identify where your doors and windows are, where you can get natural light from and wether it is daytime or nighttime. I looked back at our first concept for s set design and how we got a lot of cameras but not enough coverage for it:
After having a look at it, I though that for our football shoot, which part of it is going to be a multicam shoot, it would be good to think about the coverage I can get from the same poisition of the cameras. I don't need a camera in 10 positions to get some specific shots, I just have to make sure that they have space to move if they require to and more important, that they don't get on the way of other cameras. I realised that by rotating the cameras some movements to the sides, I could get a lot of coverage and the majority of the shots with some basic three different positions and three cameras. I will be using some Go Pros as well attached to some of the players to get more action shots from their POV.
The idea behind the camera setups was to include all of this things, based of course on Danny's shot list. I have designed the rooms as accurate as I can, adding in pencil which camera is gonna get which shot. I have used arrows to show where the cameras are going to be mainly pointing at and then some dotted lines to express movement. I have done the ones based on the locations we had at the moment, menaing some of them might change and I still need to add about 3 more that are still not secured and I haven't visited.
Here are all the designs of them:
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