More shooting stuff

We have spent two days shooting in Grindleford and have found that the shoot with a lot more time and proper planning was much more efficient than the first, I personally found this to be a massive learning experience as on the first day we hardly had anything to show for an entire days filming. We took tracking equipment with us and attempted to get a tracking shot of the tree (with coins in it) at Grindleford but because it had been raining we were unable to get the shot we wanted for a number of hours causing us to be vastly behind schedule. The rest of the shoot went well and I was particularly happy with the use of torches to make the tree appear to glisten and during that scene we got a shot of the protagonist disappearing from shot as if they had teleported, I think this looks really good. We achieved this by putting the camera on a tripod and then making both the actors stand really still and then the teleporting person walked out of shot and we continued filming, we used an onion skin feature on Lucy’s camera to make sure the shot was accurate. We then got some shots of the protagonist moving through the woods with the antagonist moving about in the background behind her. The actor moves from green woods, to orange then eventually to the tree which is in a dark orange and quite dark area of the woods so the change in colour as she travels suggests the possible danger she moves towards, the final room in the film will be red. Green being a safe colour, orange suggesting an element of danger and then in a sort of traffic light influenced theme the dangerous or scary part is in the red room. The city scenes will also be in black in white in an attempt to make the Grindleford scenery look more magical and impressive as they will be a strong contrast to Sheffield city.