The Commercial Video Shoot

We started the commercial video shoot of our fake observing session (because the sky was completely overcast) at about 3:30 in the afternoon.  We all set up our telescopes on instructions from the director.

Here the director, who is also the director of photography does a low angle shoot of people and their telescopes.

What is interesting about how video is done these days, is that they are using DSLR cameras which are now capable of video, as well as stills, instead of using the much larger video cameras.

After the sun had set, the shoot continued into the night, after a number of lights had been set up.  We were there until 8:30 PM.  The energy of the crew was amazing, and the director of photography had so much energy, and was constantly looking for new angles.  It was fascinating to watch how the shoot went.