Inheritance- Shoot Day 1

So here it is, the first shoot day for inheritance, and what a day it has been, we have covered a lot of footage and I must say for the most part it is good stuff, I can only hope that I'm not just on that post shoot buzz and when it comes around to editing or watching it back it hasn't turned out to be terrible, only time will tell. The day got off to a pretty poor start as we pulled up to Ralph's cross and began to set up the jib only to find that we hadn't got the slider head and as such couldn't get the jib shot. This meant that the first thing we intended to shoot had to be axed for the day (we will shoot it later) then we moved onto the fishing scene.

This went really well and we shot it at several different spots around the lake because we had time and I was indecisive about what I wanted the back drop to be. The only issue with this was that we obviously had no fish to pull from the lake, as a response to this I decided to make it so that the first shot after the fishing flashback was her wrapping up a "fish" to put in her bag as she leaves, thus implying she has caught a few and has packed them up, ready to be traded in the next scene to Dex.

On the way back from shooting the fishing segment we were stopped by a local man who told us not to film on the other side of the road we met him on, this meant we weren't able to shoot the ending scene as I had intended, however, this may prove to be a blessing in disguise as I am not completely satisfied with that location choice anyway. Then we set up a camp and decided to shoot the scenes which had Sophie on her own in the campsite, these are when she sews up her dads sleeping bag with him in, when she makes a sled and cross to transport and bury him and then her leaving said campsite to bury him.

These went fairly well, although it was harder to make the set I had in mind and as such some shots needed to be adapted to suit but realistically these shots went well and I don't think I will have any major issues when it comes to watching the footage back. Due to the hiccup with the landowner and not being able to shoot the final scene this meant that we were done for the day, and while I am left somewhat annoyed that we didn't get more, it's very much a relief to finally have shot something and get the ball rolling.