 They almost make us start to sell coffee in the field. Yeah, but if you're new. So then, they watch, yeah, they use coffee to watch. Imagine watching the Oral Field. When do they prepare the coffee? Yeah, he will make actions too. The whole day. Actually, I think I've prepared the run and gun documentary work. Because now, even if you're alone, you can just, you know, carry yourself when set up the report. Narratives, a different ballgame, man. It's a short film. Like, it's a short film. And already, it's been how many months preparing for it? Like, three months or four months preparing for this short film. Hello and welcome to another video here on the channel. My name is Kwame. And in this video, I'm going to take you behind the scenes of my short film, Jolt. Well, this is more like a walkthrough of how we got it done. Now, this film is inspired by my own personal experiences with my father. And I'm going to share more information on what it meant for me when I make that breakdown video after officially premiering the film. So yeah, please stay tuned for that one. So I wrote this film in January of this year. Yeah, and I promised myself that as a filmmaker, I would explore projects like this short film. And other things to offer up my portfolio. So before we get into how it was shot, here's a little snippet of the film, Jolt. It's been colored and edited, but not final. Enjoy. You know, I can't believe it that we are sitting here sharing a beer. It's funny, you know, because I remember how even when I was 18, you would be so angry any time I came close to your drinks. Hey, I really want to thank you for this. I'm really happy to be here. And it means a lot to me. Come on, look, don't make this weird. We're having a great evening. Let's just chill, you know. I know. I know. I didn't expect this. I've been meaning to ask ever since I got in here. Glasses now will shed. And therefore life is a programming thing. Or you can't see sharp now. Dad, did you just try to make a programming joke? You have no idea how I've been rehearsing and waiting for this moment. I'm proud of you, Charlie. You've done real good for yourself. Now I wish I'd allowed myself to listen more to everyone around me. I can hear them in there. So, call time was at 1pm, even though the film was set in the evening because we only had one day to shoot. And we needed to make sure that we had ample time to cover everything. We spent the first few hours running errands like, you know, getting food and refreshment for the crew as well as making sure that all props and other needed items were taken care of. Again, ample time to cover everything. Making sure everything was set. So after that, the team and I, mostly the cinematographers, had discussions on how to execute the shots as everything was happening in one space and needed to be dynamic enough to engage our audience throughout the dialogue which makes up, you know, 90% of the film. And in the end, when the guys are here for the dress, maybe the OTS is for that. And then we do the inputs when we want to. As and when do you feel like... Because I used to edit, I sometimes feel like, okay, the story might be... You might feel this way, but when you go into post, sometimes you feel like there's a certain emotion that you probably didn't see. That you might want to connect them. But you are short clean for it. Okay. Because we knew we were going to shoot late into the night, we had our lunch before we got ready for the set up. It was all hands on deck for the set up. What seemed like a simple-looking scene took a lot of time to get it just right. Let's talk about lights. Okay, my name is Kwani Bodhi. I'm a co-DP on the set. Let's talk about the lighting. So this happens to be our key light. It's motivated by our motivation basically it's like a ficture in the room sort of an overhead ficture light in this space. We chose our Walmart feel just to make the room feel hot. Given the nature of the scene, it's been very interrogative. So something to make the viewer feel uncomfortable sort of bring more heat into the scene. And we are contrasting that with a day light and temperature lights coming from the outside. We should create some kind of interest. We're probably going to have this cyan or something to create a bit more contrast in the scene. Okay, so we're using the V-Raptor. 8K V-Raptors. 8K Red V-Raptors. We have like four of those in set up. Yeah, from Kwani is like a tip of this also. But you still don't believe it though. Cameras. We had initially decided to go for a three camera set up. One wide or master shot and two over the shoulder medium close up shots. But on second thought, we chose to go with two cameras so that we can film the master later. Now this meant that we had to do more takes but in the end it made sense for this project. We thought we were going to spend about three hours shooting but we ended up spending about five hours which was well worth it to finish it all in one day as planned. Now I have to say a big shout going out to all the amazing people who made this idea a reality. The dedication to this project was truly inspiring and I can't wait to share some lessons I learned while making this short film and how much it cost to make it in my next video on this project. Thank you so much for watching and keep your eyes peeled out on my social media for the announcement on when and where we're going to premiere it and how you can be a part of that too. Cheers and catch you in the next one.