#day1shoot

As you can probably tell from the excessively large prefix, today was the first day in our nearly-a-week-long-but-not-quite film shoot! Hooray for filming, etc etc. For the first part of today’s shoot, we went and sorted out the filming of the clocks, which would form one of our 5 different transitional elements dotted around the film. The main aim of this was to film the clock faces of three clocks for 15 minutes each. Then after this we fiddled about with the different coloured camera gels to try and come up with some strange colour combinations. This resulted in some of our shots having more colours per inch than the average 90′s music video. We have no idea if they’ll make it into the final film, but we did them anyway just as a weird experiment with lighting that may be useful as a weird piece of footage. 

Or, you know, it may not. The gel stuff could go either way honestly. Could be suitably ‘creative’, or it could just end up being too overly colourful-y (is that even a word?).

If all goes well we’ll be moving on to the next transition soon, which I think is gonna be about shadows or something. Which is definitely an excuse for me to try and do a dodgy shadow puppet of a dog. Woof woof indeed.

POST-SHOOT EDIT THINGY: The shadow stuff was complete and utter chaos. It took two hours for us to figure out what we were actually doing, and there’s a massive chance that we may not use it. Well, that’s what it looked like from my angle at least. 

Today was the first day of our shoot. We were focusing on lighting today, and filming different clocks around the museum. I missed a part of the session, but when I arrived, the crew were in filming mode. There was lots of cool lighting equipment. The crew was also filming the clocks, and some portraits.

It was very interesting, and the effort being put into the filming will certainly be worth it in the end. It is only Day 1, and there is much to do.

Sit back, follow the shoot throughout the week. You can follow our progress on twitter and you can also follow our blogposts here.

A great start to the day. We began by briefly discussing our plans for the day, then we got straight onto setting up the camera and lights. We were able to set them up very quickly because of the grand training we had the day before.