First day of filming went really well. We were pretty lucky with the weather as it didn't rain once, though during the night shoot it did begin to snow...
We found a great pond in amongst many trees surrounded by lots of really nice smooth rocks, which is where we did the majority of filming. The water was so clear and reflected the trees brilliantly. As we had three different type of lenses (100mm, 50mm and 18-55mm) we had a lot of versatility in the type of shots we could get and Sam (camera man) managed to get some really great stuff making good use of the depth of field these lenses provide.
We also came across a few different streams, where Grace (sound lady) managed to get some really clear recordings of the water. Unfortunately we were interrupted by a herd of sheep who edged pretty close, one of which had 4 horns..
Our night shoot wasn't as successful but I am still please with the images we captured. The main difficulty we had was being able to see our little torches clear enough. After messing around with exposure time we did eventually get a clear image. We got images me (playing the remembered girl) moving between the trees, lit by the torches which worked okay...But then the difficult part came when we tried to do an animation...
It was hard to think of something we could repeatedly draw with our torches between each click of the camera. Ideally, we would have had drawing a figure or forest fairy or something but this wasn't going to happen realistically. So we ended up, all of us, trying to do a bird, one that moved towards to the camera. And, actually, it worked! So very chuffed about that. This is perhaps the only thing we will use from this shoot but still, it was fun and I got to be wrapped up in fairy lights, so I can't really can't complain.
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