Me, Myself and I Shoot #2

The second and final shoot of my Me, Myself and I project was shot yesterday on 05/12/15. The shoot was organised around the dates I had off work, as I usually work weekends outside of University. This meant that my time became very costly, and the shoot had to run smoothly and not into the week as that was to be my editing time before the deadline the following Friday. The shoot was to take place at various locations in Sunderland, my hometown. To capture the essence of my life and the surrounding area I felt like I really had to travel home from Hartlepool and my student accommodation. I organised with my crew to pick them up from the train station in Sunderland and that we would begin filming early that day around 8 or 9 o'clock. The first location is pictured below, at Hylton Castle. The castle and the chapel were to be captured on camera there as major landmarks in my area and places where I had hung around as a kid. Although I did not show this on camera it is a nice reference to myself of my home life growing up, aswell as the architecture looking very sophisticated to the audience. 

We then moved on from there to the other locations we were to film at; Downhill Skatepark and The moon DIY skatepark in Washington. Problems began to arise as I have previously failed to mention. Upon departure from the train station it occurred to me that the sound op had not turned up to the shoot, despite numerous attempts of communication across social media. We could not get hold of the sound op but we went ahead with the shoot regardless. We were confident we could work something out. Initially, the problems lay with the camera op having to capture me skateboarding operating the camera with pan shots and handheld tracks, but then also having to capture sound. At first we thought it would be a good idea to first capture the visuals on camera then attempt to replicate the sound in a separate recording. Pretty soon I realised that was going to be very hard to fix in post production, so we resorted to another technique which enabled us to capture image and sound simultaneously. I have mentioned all of the above in my self evaluation of my Me, Myself and I project as something which went wrong but was fixed.

Despite the problems we continued, and the shots below show our clever improvisation. It turns out film studios could save a lot of money by not employing sound ops at all, and having camera ops attach the boom-poles to themselves for static shots. We got through the shoot on time before it got dark around four o'clock. This was a big factor as I was in an area on the final stretch of the shoot with no source of lighting or no lighting equipment with me. We finished the shoot around half three in Washington in time to return to Sunderland for some night shots of the area I was to use as in-between skateboarding sequences. Now that I had all my footage, it was time to brave the edit!