Shoot Report

On Saturday we had our first day of primary shooting. The group plus our friends Liv (photographer) and James (actor for the day), gathered at mine and then headed out into the Fens to shoot the majority of our opening sequence.

The day was pretty much a success, despite a few hiccoughs. The primary one being Jamie's bike (one of the two bikes we were using in the filming) completely died on us halfway through the shoot. So we had to improvise and wrote into the script on the spot that the bike belonging to the character James was playing broke, and then subsequently they had to walk the rest of the way home. This was annoying as it meant the shot of the boys cycling down the main street and turning into one of the side roads is considerably longer and slower, and therefore sorts of destroys the pacing/interesting of the opening. We may have to cut this shot, or at the least just use a chunk out of it.
It was also quite tiring because we had to walk quite long distances between several different shots, so 20 seconds on the camera could take 15 minutes to shoot simply because of distance walked.

Despite these things overall the shoot went pretty well, despite REALLY slippery grassy banks, snowy ground that was insanely hard work to cycle (and having to do it three time) and every getting a bit tired and cold.


We managed to shoot all of the shots of the two boys out in the fens and then coming into village, but by the time we had done this it was getting on and we were starting to lose the light. So the final shots of one of the boys going home alone to his house I'll shoot on my own (not a problem as I'm the 'actor' playing that one of the boys), sometime this week. I'll have to do it before all the snow melts however, because otherwise we'll have continuity problems, hopefully I'll be able to do it tomorrow maybe, or early Thursday morning. We will see. After I've done this all shooting should be done, apart from the stuff inside the house which I can do at the same time.