Saturday, 30 January 2016

The Shoot - Final Piece

I prepared a number of snacks to bring with to the shoot location. This includes: 3 cans of Pepsi, a bottle of Cola, Pringles tortillas, Choco Caramels and half a pack of Cool Ranch Doritos. These snacks are all quick and easy to consume whilst on set, with little waste produced and thus an easier maintenance on cleaning.

Unfortunately Owen was unable to attend but he gave me the props and as pictured below, I brought the AK-47 replica to the shoot. An issue was how it doesn't necessarily look realistic, to combat this I used some black electrical tape to cover the orange parts; I had to be careful during the shoot to ensure that no one of the public was startled by the appearance of the prop.
In order to avoid panic as much as possible, I chose a relatively secluded area for the shoot - one far away from the majority of people.


We met up as planned however it did start to snow for a little bit. I initially thought that this would be an issue - in case we shoot some of the shots with snow and the rest without - as it could become a continuity error, however, the weather soon cleared up - though it did set us behind schedule by around half an hour.
During the shoot, I needed to create some tracking shots and so I had brought a skateboard along. The skateboard proved ineffective and didn't necessarily capture the panic of the shots, being too smooth; instead I decided to track the shots as handhelds on foot.

Overall the shoot went on without a hitch with just the occasional pedestrian walking by, meaning we would have to stop shooting. I'll review the footage and create a rough cut, improving further from the video.

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