Test Shoot Weekend

At the weekend we went to Hampstead Heath for a test shoot. Despite a couple of hitches with equipment i think the weekend was quite successful. We had a fierce battle with the elements but due to careful planning and consideration the weather did not prove a challenge (apart from the temperature!).

The footage we took was of mixed quality. I think we were perhaps a tad rusty with the camera and there was definitely positive correlation between the time out and the quality of the footage. We took a couple of out of focus shots and a couple of perhaps undesirable handheld shots.

Although the natural sound is not a particularly important feature for the sequence we had interference caused by a rowdy gang of ducks and two killer swans. Despite the winged worlds attempts i think that the sound was quite successful. the boom mic proved immensely valuable because it allowed us to exaggerate sounds we wanted to focus on.

The mise-en-scene of our shots were mostly fine. we had a couple were we weren't happy with the positioning of characters etc. but we re-shot all of them.

I think if we focus on pre-shoot organization such as shot logs and also make sure we correctly log all of our shots the next shoots will run very smoothly and we should get very good footage to use when editing,

best regards,

Nathan.