Brush Stroke- Film Shoot #3

This is a blog post to document the events and quality of the third film shoot, this was the one we did for the forest scene, this took place at Penshaw monument and was in general a good shoot. The weather was a minor issue at times but generally there was no huge problems with this shoot.

This is Carl standing staring at the picture on the tree before the character of Michael is transported out of the forest via the picture.

The first things we shot were Michael walking through the forest as he is transported into a picture for the first time. These were easy shots we just found nice bends in the path and gaps in trees for Carl to walk towards and pass to simulate a long walk. The only issue with this is another way we are trying to show time passing is by tilting to the sky and fading to a new sky then tilting down again. However, we will not know if this worked until we come to the edit.

Over the shoulder set up for the shot on the previous production still.

Then we came to a clearing where I put the photo up for Carl to look at as a reference. There weren't many issues at this point except some things we saw in hindsight when we looked back at the footage, for example we got a shot that pulls in on Michael's face as he stares at the picture, however the bag on the tree in the background wasn't moved and somehow we missed it so it ruined the shot.

Me directing from under my coat to compensate for the rain.

As I said, the main issue was the rain, although this wasn't an issue during takes it was during transportation between spots when people were slipping and almost falling with the equipment, luckily nobody did fall and the equipment was unscathed. The only other issue with the rain was Carl slipping during takes but this only happened twice and was pretty funny so we just laughed and reshot.