During Covid19 lockdown, my partner Amanda Wright was asked by Little Angel Theatre to record a story to release as online content. Using house plants we transformed our living room into a jungle to make the Jackanory style short film, and filmed it in a single long take, using two cameras (a Sony A7R iii and a Sony A7R iv).

The room with plants arranged but before being lit.

With lighting and smoke added. We used a small £30 smoke machine from Amazon which worked really well.

We filmed with a Sony A7R iii with a 70-200 lens and a Sony A7R iv with a 24-70 lens.

Background lit with Nanlite Forza 500 and 300, both with Bowens softboxes fitted, and a long Nanlite pavotube giving the green glow on the back wall. A small 6C pavotube fills in the shadows in the foreground with a blue/green light. Amanda is lit with a Nanlite Forza 60 with a fresnel attachment.

Sound was recorder using a Rode shotgun mic into a Zoom H4N recorder.