Shoot day details

Details of how the first shoot went

 

On the first day of the shoot we were lucky enough to have clear weather to suit what we had planned and hoped to achieve for our production. We initially encountered problems with cars parked in the area where we had wished to shoot. Luckily we had also planned to shoot in an alternative location near by as we were aware our first choice may have been busy at that time of day.

 

The very first location we visited was a long farm track between two fields. We chose this track because the land either side is flat also the path is very long, together this made the location perfect for our running scene as we could easily film long pan shots and hopefully be able to create a silhouetted effect as well. unfortunately when we arrived we noticed some tractors, parked half way up the path, we were still able to use the path, as all of the vehicles were stationary an we were using a public foot path, but we had to be very careful with the framing of each shot.

 

 

Our next locations were in Stamford. We chose to use certain streets in Stamford as Stamford is an old historic town and the streets we used visually fitted the1940's theme we were hoping to set. We had to be careful of what we included in the framing of each shot to avoid any people or out of era vehicles and objects. we used three locations in Stamford; one leading from a field to the town streets, a back road leading around a corner and finally a street alongside the church. we found the street alongside the church the hardest to film at because as we had arrived and set up all of children from the local school were walking by to move to their  next lessons! we took this time as an opportunity to look through the footage we had collected and to see if we needed to add anything extra. after about 15 minutes we were able to continue filming.