Second Shoot

The second shoot went really well, this time we stuck directly to our storyboard and in result the filming experience went really well. I had found a suitable location in Denham for the scene, the police scouting for the lost child. We managed to arrive at the location in good time - our actor George Grant, playing the policeman searching; was great as he was enthusiastic and willing to incorporate my dog in the scene.
Haydn Morgans brought the props and I set the scene up with props whilst Daniel Parslow directed the actors and how the scene would play out. As a group I think we worked really succesfully as we managed to take up individual roles to help it play out smoothly. I also set up the camera angles and shot distance, whilst Haydn suggested a slight tilt which we decided gave the shot a very powerful and realistic feeling to it.
On location our first shooting was to test the light and how the shot would look. The first shooting at roughly 4:45 turned out to be too bright and the sunlight reflected in the lense resulting in a overly bright shot. I had to wait and continously test the shots to get the perfect light blend between light enough to see clearly and dark enough to reflect our gloomy scene. We ended up with a time frame of roughly 10 minutes to film during 5:15-5:25.
Overall I believe this film shoot was a lot more succesfull than the first and the quality of shot was really effective. One good point from this is too make sure the lighting is perfect and at the right time as we struggle to create artificial quality lighting.