Final Production - Shoot 4

Final Production shoot - Arcade shoot 4

Today was the final shoot of the module, the shoot we were all very nervous about because it was so close to the deadline. We had been in preparation for this shoot for a whole week, finding out we had access to the arcade the previous Wednesday. We spent a lot of our time going over the storyboards and shot-lists in detail, preparing booking out forms and having tech dems with the equipment we were going to use but hadn't used before. This was going to be my biggest production so far, and as director I was both nervous and excited about the morning shoot. We planned our time accordingly for the shoot, keeping our actors and crew up to date on any plans we had. We had to call in extra crew for this shoot, as we had one hour to film everything we needed. The owner of the arcade kindly opened his arcade for us to film in before it actually opened to the public, giving us a one hour window to get in set up, film, pack up and get out. With the extra crew from the course we had three cameras altogether on three separate units. This worked very effectively I found on the day as all three units were given a separate shot-list and worked towards my own goal as director, gathering the shots I wanted and needed for the edit. We previously used the footage from both shoots to create a timeline with gaps, where the footage from todays shoot was going to go. This enabled us to see how much we needed in quantity, but also which shots we needed to make the narrative work. When we arrived on location at 9 in the morning, we had one of our actors and half of our crew at location. The other half were still waiting for the male actor to arrive at the University so they could drive him through. Having two cars was extremely effective, we were able to take the actors, crew and equipment to location all in one trip. The shoot itself flew by over the hour as we rushed to get the shots we needed with the equipment that needed setting up beforehand. This was partly because the main male actor was half an hour late. Despite this we used our initiative to get a lot of cutaway shots before he arrived, and by the time he did arrive we had covered the vast majority of shots we needed for the main female actor. In conclusion the shoot went very well. I was ecstatic with the visuals that came out of the location we were so lucky to acquire, and I am equally as happy with how the crew were so hard working during the shoot at such an early hour. Below are some images of myself, the crew and the actors all on location during the shoot.