The Shoot of the graffiti.19.11.08

Chase and I had gone the previous day to check that it would be possible to get the equipment as i hadn't had an email back saying if we were able to get what equipment we had requested. We were doing our shoot in the evening as it was inside his studio, so we went and collected all the equipment which was:

- Sony HVR-Z7U camcorder and tripod

- Light and stand with some gloves for safety against burns.

- Reflector
-Edirol R-09 Audio Recorder

Chase also took his small hand held camcorder as we want to add some extras onto our DVD such as the making of.

Rosie had her car which meant we could just pile into that and drive to the studio.

On getting to the studio and setting up the equipment we asked Nathan to explain the order he had to paint the piece and what he was planning on doing in order to be able to get good shots of the piece.

We had asked him to paint a character that represented himself (seen below). After getting to know him a bit i can see how the overall angry feel to the graffiti portrays his slightly angry side he has and has mentioned. To explain the rest of it from head downwards in the had the buildings show the urban style of his art, the spray can is for the grafting obviously and the skull and cross bones a dark side to him. The paint roller in the one hand represents art and how much he loves to paint. I think the colour, especially of the body make it look quite criminalish which represents the criminal side of graffiti. We didn't need to use any lighting as there was enough light in the studio.

We ended up getting about an hour worth of footage at the end of it which myself, Chase and Jack (the cameraman) watched when back at our house and thought about what shots we thought were good and which ones we may not want to use, although we did not write this down which now i would have known to do.

The shoot went well overall and everyone seemed to be enjoying it and contributing. The only draw back was we were planning on trying to get the interview done that night also which we ended up running out of time to do, as we were there from about 5.30 till 9 this meant that we organised to shoot the interview at his house on Monday. This meant we didn't use the Edirol to much we did get some audio of the spray can and background noise though.

Here are some of the pictures from the shoot: