Kodak Awards - Progress Update - Shoot 3

Today we had our third and final shoot of our 16mm Kodak shoot for the outside brief from Paperchase. This was going to be the modern sequence and the end of the advert. The concept as it goes follows history chronologically, the caveman, then to the Victorian era and then onto modern times. 

We arrived on set, which was my own living room, around 11 o'clock. Our actress arrived first followed shortly after by our actor and the crew. It took a while to get set up, and an issue with the batteries stopped us shooting until around 1 o'clock. Better preparation all around could have potentially prevented this. 

Below is an image from the shoot, of our camera operator, actress and extra (my dog)

We used the living room of my house as the large windows let in quite a lot of light which we needed as we're shooting on 250D film stock. We've been very successful until now when it comes to avoiding it getting dark, which it does so early at this time of year. The sequence commences as the young man walks into the room to greet his parter who sits on the sofa. He hands her a card and as she opens it she appears to be delighted, throwing her arms around him. The man then notices something in the window, shown through his facial expression. We then cut to a shot of the caveman and the victorian man from the previous scenes, standing at the window looking extremely jealous. The blinds are pulled shut on them to add a tongue in cheek element. At this point the paperchase logo comes across the screen and we're made aware that the message we're witnessing is 'shop at paperchase this valentines day, or as seen throughout history you'll fail to impress'. 

Overall, following a recurring theme I think the shoot went very well. We got everything we needed and more with around 50ft of film left in the camera. Unfortunately as we overshot this scene and one of the others, we were forced to cancel the Roman shoot which was to be another sequence of the advert set in ancient rome. I am a little disappointed as we had a great costume for that shoot in particular, but as we've shot to much in terms of usable material over three shoots, I can't see it being too much of a miss. I'm confident that the original message we were aiming to portray will still come across very clearly without that sequence. Now that we're wrapping up the project we have nearly 10 minutes of usable footage that has to be cut down to 30 seconds. 

As you can see in the image below, my dog Coco joined us on set and even acted as the couples pet. She sat nice and still for the most part, I think we did alright on continuity between shots with her positioning despite her jumping down a few times.