MDA Rogue’s Gallery-Live
by Kevin Murray • May 28, 2010 • errata • 0 Comments
Innocent, Guilty - All participants in this years Muscular Dystrophy Telethon had a blast (as did we)
If you’d like you can view the complete 2010 MDA Rogue’s Gallery on our facebook page or, for folks interested in the production details can read on…
Pre-Production: Reasearch and Assets
Whenever possible we try to work directly with our clients in developing and producing photography sets, theatrical prop pieces and wardrobe. Sometimes clients can supply these assets but as often as not, it’s a mixed split. We wound up using their inmate props while we staged a new jailbar facade and fabricated for them a few flats for the participants to stand behind and a neutral canvas as background we’d planned to drop behind the sets .
The photo on the left shows us testing lights/positions which we’d planned to mount high enough that folks wouldn’t smack into them and, with enough distance from the set so as to minimize shadow-cast from the jail bars. `Course – that setup wouldn’t work as well once we found out we weren’t going to shooting where we thought we would..
The Build and changes in plans
Initially, we’d assumed our set would be positioned against the South wall of the ballroom however, day of shoot we learned it would instead front the main bay windows of the Country Club’s Dining room. It won’t be a problem to adjust lighting to balance that of ambient outdoors but there wasn’t going to be much I could do about specular reflection on the glass, `cept try to bury it as best we could while maintaining complimentary lighting on our subjects.
Cindy, Heath and I thoroughly enjoyed ourselves during the session and want to thank the great event coordinators and the rest of the wonderful staff and volunteers for all their help and assistance throughout the day’s event. We look forward to next year’s Lock up and are already thinking of ways to “amp it up” a notch.
