Shoot Diary-14/12/19

What did you do?

Today was the shoot day, which included only 7 hours to record all of the content for our Short film, ‘The Most Beautiful Thing In The world’.

Script…..

The day consisted of a rushed schedule, including getting our locations prepped for filming, setting up equipment (e.g. Camera, Boom mic, Radio mics, tripod), getting the actors ready with memorised lines, and then actually shooting the film!

This week was solely centred around the Director and Cinematographer (Me!). I found this to be a tough and exhausting day as I was constantly working non-stop, whether it was setting up equipment, finding interesting angles, actually filming or running around to different locations. No matter what I was doing, I was constantly on my feet, and this was a sharp reminder to how much hard work this field of job can be.

What have you learnt?

No amount of planning can fully prepare you for the shoot day as you cannot control any small issues, or in our case, having the locations available at the right time, to suit the schedule so instead we filmed slightly out of order.

How have you worked with others?

I believe that today was the most important as without teamwork the whole thing would have fallen apart. \We each had a highly important role to take on to ensure that our film was a success, and I think we all managed the pressure and jobs given extremely well, as well as bonding throughout the process.

What do you need to develop?

Effectiveness and time management. Although we completed the film within the time limit, I think that if we had set up as soon as we entered the space, as well as chatting about the next step, then we would have been even more ahead.

Our film, ‘The Most Beautiful Thing In The World’…