Grindleford Shoot

We planned to get everything filmed before Easter but due to the bad weather and actor availability we are a little behind our shooting schedule. We meet at stalls to pick up our equipment:

• Two Canon 305
• Two tripods
• Zoom
• Sennheiser 416
• Slider
• Reflector

(Take 1)

Once in Grindleford me  Once he arrived we where quite efficient filming the shots where we seen the rabbit sat on the log. Adam and Elliot headed to the first location to set up while Paul waited to meet the actor. We set up both camera to the correct exposure, white balance and frame rate, while we where waiting we grab a couple of cut always before Paul arrived with the actor.

(Deep discussion about sequence shot)

(Sequence shot)

We wanted to spend as much time possible on the sequence shot, as we knew it would be quite difficult with the time restrictions we had with the actor having to leave. We had a little discussion about how best to film the scene, personally I wanted the camera to track the women and follow her but with out a steady cam this proved to be very difficult. The footage was shaky and it was hard to position everyone so there wouldn’t get in shot. We tried this 3 or 4 times before we tried a static sequence shot. We positioned the camera in front   of the rabbit as the women creeps up behind him, she moved from tree to tree before moving out of frame then suddenly reappearing with the net. This worked quite well but we decided to film it from another angle just so we had the coverage in edit.

(Cutaway)

We had to rap up the scenes with the actor quite quickly as she had to leave, we spent the rest of the time getting cut away shots of the rabbit in the woods, watching T.V drinking water and also a couple point of view shots.

After we finished we went into the edit room to review the footage, I was very pleased with how it looked the cutaways looked visually pleasing. However I was a little disappointed with how the sequence shot looked, I just thought the static shots where a little boring and lasted too long. The shots that where hand held where too shaky to use. Its just a little frustrating when this is a problem that couple of been fixed if we had access to a steady cam. Grindleford scene is only a very short part of our film and the rest we had planned to film the Monday we got back from easter.