Purple Shoots and Scentsational Cottage Testimonial Shoot

Another sunny day and another testimonial to do for Purple Shoots. Yesterday we was collecting the testimonial from Scentsational Cottage run by Ruth and Alun Hancock.

Link: https://www.scentsationalcottage.com/

As with the last shoot at Something Fresh, I popped into Scentsational Cottage to meet with the owners to run them through the process and to offer them any guidance they needed. This also allows me to get a feel for the layout, I was able to plan where the camera and lights would be for they day.

We had a little bit more room to play with this time so this afforded me the option of using a multi cam setup and use our lantern light to help lift the exposure in the room.

The set up was two cameras placed where the tills where located, we had one wide and one tighter shot that we could switch between. Only one camera is needed for the B-Roll

For the rig, this is all setup on a single tripod and using a 48” slider I have retro fitted this so that it can hold the two cameras, camera monitor, audio recorder and a mini boom arm all from the same tripod.

This allows me to keep the set up compact but very functional. Whilst we had more space there was only really one location we could place the light, however because its a big lantern it did provide for some nice soft light and left the image feeling natural.

Editing was done in a day and has been delivered to Purple Shoots awaiting approval

Purple Shoots and Something Fresh Testimonial Shoot

Nice to be finally back out in public doing some work. Purple shoots want Datrysiad Media to get some testimonials from businesses that they have helped set up. Business in question is Something Fresh

Link: https://somethingfreshcardiff.com/

They are a non profit organisation and they have also just opened Len & Jen’s Tea Room.

Met with the owner before the actual shoot to discuss what we needed to achieve, this also served the purpose for me to scout the shop to see where the best place to perform the testimonial. Beautiful place but we was limited for space to shoot.

So for this we stuck to 1 camera for the main testimonial and the same camera to capture the B-Roll

Setup took 20 minutes, testimonial took 15 minutes and the rest of the time was spent capturing B-Roll.

All in all was a lovely morning and the owners where a pleasure to work with. It was busy whilst working there so made sure to mask up, was a little worried about the audio but everything turned out great.

The edit took around 1 day to complete and was delivered to Purple Shoots for review, no changes was required.

Something Fresh was a pleasure to work with and look forward to working with them again.

The final video can be viewed on Purple Shoots YouTube page: https://youtu.be/YjBj-2fgmAg