Monday, November 26, 2007

Test Shoot Weekend

We did some shooting early morning today and yesterday. When shooting, we found that some of the things we planned worked well, whereas others really didn't.

Some of the shots we had planned to do, didn't really work when we tried them out.
  • Shot 4: the girl climbing over fence to get into the park
    We didn't even attempt this shot. It seemed too dangerous to even try it, since our actress wasn't wearing any shoes, so could have been injured very easily.
  • Shot 12: a shot from the girl's POV as she stumbles over, we see her hands hit the ground
    This ended up being too complicated and really didn't look very effective.

We had also planned to get a high angle shots by having Liam in a tree taking the shot, but this really couldn't work since the trees in the park didn't have stable enough branches (if they even had any branches at all).

On the first day of shooting (Sunday November 25th), we had some weather issues. It was really freezing outside, and because of the actress's costume, she got really cold. So, we ended up rushing a bit, to try and make sure that she didn't get too cold. This ended up meaning that we probably didn't get enough footage as we would have liked to. But, today it was much better, since it wasn't as cold. This meant that we could spend much longer on taking our shots.

We have now realised that we don't have enough shots. We thought we would, but once we put our ideas into practics, we realised that we probably don't have enough shots. So in between now and our actual shoot, we're going to have to add more shots to our shot list. But, while shooting today we did also invent a few extra shots that weren't originally on the shot list.

A few pictures from our shoots:








(that was Liam standing in for Lara as the victim, by the way... oh and Angelie took all these pictures, which is why she's not in any of them)

~ Angelie

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