We had to shoot this powder paint fight scene in one night as we only had enough money for a certain amount of powder paint also because the actors would get so messy doing it that we couldn't afford to do it in two nights. We wrote out lists of what everyone needed to bring with them. This made sure we didn't forget anything. We also set out a timetable of when everyone got there and when we would start shooting the video. We told everyone to get there at 6pm so that we could brief everyone and so that we could set up the camera etc. At 7pm we started to shoot as this was when it was dark enough to start. We set the camera to shoot 50fps rather than 25fps so that when we slow it down in editing it will be smoother and less jolty. We only had one chance to get the clean shot as they would get paint all over them after it so we had to practise this without the paint first. We then got lots of different shots of the paint fight that we could edit together. We shot lots of different shots right up until we had absolutely no powder paint left so that we didn't waste anything. we also did shots of the people just standing in the paint so it wasn't just constant paint being chucked around.
Overall the shooting went really well and it looked exactly how we wanted it to turn out which we were all worried about. The paint showed up really well and the lighting was really good too. I also think that the costumes for the actors fitted in well and made it look that bit better. If we were to do it again I think we would have got more powder paint and got lots more shots just to make sure and be certain that we had enough shots. However, even if we don't have enough we can always reuse shots but i think we almost defiantly do have enough. The only real problem we had was that our 3rd couple said they couldn't do it last minute. We managed to get a 3rd girl but we couldn't find another guy to do it. We ended up having 3 girls and 2 guys which in the end didn't look that bad at all and it wasn't a disaster.
Here are a few stills from the day of shooting...
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