First Day of Production

Thursday 19th November went almost as planned. We all turned up on time at Wareside, found an appropriate field and set to work filming our opening shots, after that things started to drift away from how we might have dared to hope.

Our first location for the chase we had hoped to use the tricycle to get some smooth tracking shots of Courtney running but the ground was so rough this proved impossible. We tried different stretches of ground to try somewhere a bit flatter but every time the shots came out shaky and Courtney rarely even appeared in them. To make up for this I had to get lots of excess still shots and even now I will have to review what we have and decide if we need to re-shoot any of it.

Our second location proved more fruitful. We found an excellent tree for Courtney to hide behind but again we had issues with the sticky muddy ground that prevented Courtney from smoothly sliding behind the tree. Katie, who played Courtney, could scarcely even run down the bank and behind the tree. We had to get lots of quick shots and hope we could edit them together into something vaguely decent. On the plus side the sun was angled in such a way we took the opportunity to get some excellent backlit shots where Katie was practically in silhouette.

Still to do though is the entire second scene including a slow-motion shot of a coffee cup falling and pick-ups on this scene.