Wednesday 27 April 2016
Having prepared using the golden hour app, i set out at half 4am in the morning to get to sheerness early to set up for golden hour, as the window of opportunity to film during this hour was 45 minutes:
On the way to sheerness i wanted to get some additional shots as i was driving over the bridge just before golden hour, especially with the sheerness signage in the shot to let the audience know where the story is taking place.
Because the caravan site where Oli lives has animals on the site, such as: rabbits, ducks, moorehens across the lake plus heron, geese and Owls, and i wanted them to be in shot, to try and help me lure them out, the food that i brought along with me was:
Brown bread
Ackee
Chopped Vegatables
Spring onions
The shot list that i’ve got for this shoot mainly comprises of establishing shots of the caravan site; getting in the animals on the site and various locations throughout the site, then Oli leaving his caravan during the golden hour and going for a jog. (Following the shortlist checklist that i created)
The food came in handy, attracting the seagulls and also the ducks, however, the rest of the animals unfortunately was not local during the shoot.
Here’s the establishing shots of the Caravan site and also the sequence of Oli leaving his caravan to go for a jog, with the animals roaming outside of his caravan
Caravan site establishing shots
Caravan sequence establishing shot
Caravan sequence
To get the tracking shots of Oli jogging, we went to a few remote areas where cars don’t drive down and had him jogging along the pathways on those roads, with my friend Chris driving as i was filming Oli holding the camera stead from inside the car. The side shots of Oli jogging was filmed using my canon 24-105mm lens at F4 with an ND filter on it to stop down some of the light whilst maintaining the shallow DOF. The reason that i used the 24-105 was so that i could zoom in and out quickly to get the shot types that i needed throughout the shoot, as during golden hour we only had a small window of time to film in.
Oli Jogging side shots
To get the frontal view of Oli Jogging, i had to open up the boot and place the camera on the tripod inside of the boot, operating the camera from the back seat as Chris was driving. To achieve the shallow DOF i used my canon 70-200mm f4 at f4 zoomed in at 160mm with the ND filter attached to the front to stop down the light
Oli Jogging frontal shot
