Grindleford 2nd Shoot

We had another group meeting and planned out the shots in more detail this time and allowed ourselves a lot more time to shoot on the day. We took the 10:14 train and got the 3:44 train back to Sheffield meaning that we had a very adequate amount of time to shoot. A lot of this time was wasted as we took tracks with us to Grindleford but unfortunately it had been raining all morning (putting off the time we had to shoot) but also meaning that the surface was too slippery for us to use the track or move around comfortably with the camera meaning that the tracking shot of the tree took us around an hour to get at least. We tried using the shoulder mount aswell but this was not working. After some deliberation we figured out that Lucy had no image stabeliser on her camera and we used mine to get a couple of moving shots as I did have one. After we got this shot we had to hurry a little in order to make our train but we managed to get all of the shots from the storyboards that we wanted therefore making this a succesful shoot, much more so than the previous shoot. I specifically like the shot of the protagonist looking in a mirror and then the antagonist appearing in the background of this mirror. We took a lot of time to get each shot and thankfully the words "That will do" and "We'll fix it in post" were not uttered at any time in the shoot so taking the extra time really paid off. I also think the use of the lighting we booked out was a good idea as we could shine it off the tree that had coins in it to create a really nice shimmering effect when the cast got close to the tree. (Making the tree appear to be magic as we had intended) We just need to incorpotate the long take into our Sheffield segment of the film now so this will be the next thing to work on.