The shoot day started at 9 am. We set of in 2 cars, with our kit in the back, to our first location for the interior nursery scene. It took us a while to settle into the process and this first shot was a small lesson on lighting and angling the camera to manipulate the room to our advantage. We discussed light temperature and getting lighting right for it to look natural. It took us about 30 minutes to do this shot before we got back into the cars and moved onto our next location, for the exterior house shots.
These shots involved using a track to create a smooth pan shot which followed our actress out of her house and swung round the corner behind her to reveal the final shot. This was a bit of a challenge to do successfully, as we were pushing the camera on the dolly ourselves, and it was hard to keep the pace consistent with Emma walking. However I think we did manage to get this shot in the end.
We then took a break for lunch and moved on to our final location for the rest of the interior house shots. We chose to do them in chronological order, which we discovered by the end of the day was not such a good idea. We worked our way down from the bedroom to the kitchen; a shot in which we needed to burn some toast. It was a little bit tricky to get the toast to burn and the right time and as we had a limited amount of slices we had to be quite careful. As the toast started burning the right amount we were not fully ready and all had to scramble into position before it set on fire. Fortunately I think this shot worked though.
We were quite lax about speed in the morning, so as 3pm came around we realised how much we still had left to do. We ploughed through the rest of the shots to try and stay within daylight hours, but the sky grew dark and we had to use lights to try and recreate daylight, since we have not gone through the shots yet I don’t know if it has worked but I’m really hoping it has.
Our second to final shot was of the girl going to her front door and discovering it is open, however by this time it was 6pm and pitch black outside, again we had to use a series of lights to create a morning light look and I think we did this quite well. I am looking forwards to editing and seeing how all our footage turns out.
These shots involved using a track to create a smooth pan shot which followed our actress out of her house and swung round the corner behind her to reveal the final shot. This was a bit of a challenge to do successfully, as we were pushing the camera on the dolly ourselves, and it was hard to keep the pace consistent with Emma walking. However I think we did manage to get this shot in the end.
We then took a break for lunch and moved on to our final location for the rest of the interior house shots. We chose to do them in chronological order, which we discovered by the end of the day was not such a good idea. We worked our way down from the bedroom to the kitchen; a shot in which we needed to burn some toast. It was a little bit tricky to get the toast to burn and the right time and as we had a limited amount of slices we had to be quite careful. As the toast started burning the right amount we were not fully ready and all had to scramble into position before it set on fire. Fortunately I think this shot worked though.
We were quite lax about speed in the morning, so as 3pm came around we realised how much we still had left to do. We ploughed through the rest of the shots to try and stay within daylight hours, but the sky grew dark and we had to use lights to try and recreate daylight, since we have not gone through the shots yet I don’t know if it has worked but I’m really hoping it has.
Our second to final shot was of the girl going to her front door and discovering it is open, however by this time it was 6pm and pitch black outside, again we had to use a series of lights to create a morning light look and I think we did this quite well. I am looking forwards to editing and seeing how all our footage turns out.
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