reccee for music magazine shoot
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Recce for my Location
Address & Map of Location
BOA Academy –
1 Grosvenor Street, Birmingham B4 7QD
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Why it’s a suitable location for the scene?
I have chosen the location of the TV Studio at BOA as I feel it is easy to access and is a smart plain room to work with. As it is so bland, I have the opportunity and space here to develop a good image with whatever effects I wish to use, and have the knowledge of knowing that know colorful walls or objects will interfere with my shoot. It is a safe environment with very little risks and this means an easier place for the photographer and artist to work. It is a well known place and so there will be no problems reporting there. There are no windows shining light through which means no different lighting interfering with the final image, however they do say natural light is the best light and so that may be a disadvantage, at least know I can decide my lighting, angles, shadows and reflections with no input from the unreliable lighting. This TV Studio also consists of a green screen which I can then use to develop the whole background of my image. I think this is a big advantage and I can work with it a lot, I can use this to change colour, or add an image, for example make it look like the Artist is on a beach, not in a studio. This will make the final photo unique and so it won’t look similar to any other magazine. I can book the time in the TV Studio whenever it is available so again that will be up to me which makes it easy to suggest a time when the Artist and Photographer are both free. I will be able to borrow a microphone stand from school and transport it safely and easily from one room to another, I will take advantage of the room being dark and full of black walls and floors, because the theme of my images will be dark, sharp and mysterious, so this will help my images a lot.
The availability of location
The TV Studio is mostly always in use by the broadcast students so it will be my job to book a time slot when it is available and others are not in need of using it. I will check with Mr Butler to know who to contact in order to borrow the studio for a certain time. I will be taking a lot of images and pulling 4 images out of these. In order for me to produce and find the smartest and sharpest best suited image for each page of the magazine, I will need quite a few hours in the studio.
Power SourcesI located 2 power sources in the TV Studio. One on the right as I
walk in, and one further along on the wall.
Lighting Issues at the LocationThere is no natural lighting that will be interfering the photo shoot
as it is a fully black room with one wall of green curtains used as a green screen. It will be just the lighting from the camera effecting the image, this is good because this means I can determine it myself then. I will then dictate after trying a couple of shots, to weather I keep the house lights on, or have them off with a flash on the camera.
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