SHOOT DAY 2

The second day of the shoot was rather simple and less time consuming. The shoot involved all the outdoor night shots e.g sitting on the footpaths, walking through streets when he is intoxicated and shots from inside the car in which he is high and later starts facing side effects due to the drugs and ends up crashing his car.

SETUP

The shoot started at around 8pm, in the North Nazimabad block H area of Karachi. Tarawish(my actor) could not come to or near Ashar’s place again since he lives far away, so I had to go to him. I asked him to wear one of his plain coloured tee shirts since that is the costume-style I am going with. I did his makeup in the car again, the same way we did on the first day of shoot.

CAMERA SETTINGS

On the second day of shoot, I only used one camera, which was my own, since I did not want to risk my friends’ cameras out on the streets in a city like Karachi. This shoot was also more like a run-and-gun shoot so I had to be fast. I could not be switching cameras back and forth.
The camera settings were pretty much the same. 1/50th shutter speed, 16mm and 24fps. The ISO changed heavily due to the dark, due to which I will have to deal with the noisy footage later on in edit.

LIGHTING

I had no other lights except my phone’s flashlight, which was easy to manage because the second day of shoot only had snorricam and still shots which involved a tripod so I could easily hold a flashlight in my hand.

camera movement and coverage

I did not have to worry about coverage here, except in one scene where he is sitting on a footpath and I decided to take a shot of him from the front and back. I had to take individual takes from the same camera for it. On the rest of the scenes, there was no extra angles so coverage was not an issue.
Camera movement was pretty much only static and snorricam rig shots.