Account of the Shooting Day!

Last minute preparations for the shoot day?
We conviened, as to our shooting shedual, at 9am to confirm we were all prepared for the shoot. When we met we ensured that we had completed our props list and that our cast was prepared for the shoot. The last minute preparations for the shoot day were our sourcing of the fake blood and the change of costume decision. For the costume we changed her from wearing a hoodie, to just wearing a plain tank top.
We, therefore, in our preparation made sure we had the correct equiptment. Our equiptment list is ordered as followed -
· 1 x Sony PDR 170 Min DV Cam (Plus 2x Batteries)
· 2 x Mini DV Cam Tape Stock
· 1 x XLR Lead
· 1 x Boom Pole
· 1 x Sennheiser Directional Microphone
· 2 x Red Head Video Lights and Tripods
· 1 x Fluid Head Tripod (inc. Horseshoe)
· 2 x AA Batteries
· 1 x Suspension Unit
· 1 x Rycote Softie
Throught out the shooting day we utalized all of our created planning materials to ensure that we were on target and we wouldn't waste time. We used everything that we created (as detailed in the blog below), however our shooting schedual was something that was overthought. We could have used it much more effectively to sustain a more fluid shooting motion throughout the day.
Due to the factor of cirrcumstance we had to change our plans during the shoot day so therefore, we removed our first shot from our story board for practical and timing reasons, this was to make sure that our day didn't run over time and that once we returned to the edit suite we didn't have an excessive amount of material to log. Also we planned on using a lot of blood within our final shot, however upon further thought we found it unnecessary and unrealistic to have that amount of blood due to our desire to create as much realism as possible within the piece.


There were various high points through out the day and this saw the development of team morale and creativity to be exploited. The innovation of one our team members saw us shooting inside the van. We moved our camera into the van and drove past our female protagonist to create a more smooth flow of sequence to cut into our final log.


Although our group worked productively through out most of the day we did have minor down falls that affected the outcome of our final piece, and ultimately our success. On the shoot day it was imperitive that we stuck to our shooting schedual, however due to our creative excelleration we found that once on location it was difficult to stay on task due to the stream of ideas we kept developing while on location. If were were to have the ability to shoot again, I would suggest that we stick more closely to our shooting schedual in order to work more efficently.

Photos from the Shoot ;