Tuesday, 24 February 2009

Post Shooting Update - My logistical problems

Over the filming period Fri 13th Feb – Monday 24rth Feb I successfully got the filming I wanted....... eventually, but only after jumping from contingency plan to contingency plan and having filming plan's A B and C fall through. The first filming night was set for Tuesday 17th Feb, but this fell through when the assistant cameraman fell ill. I then tried to find a replacement cameraman for the following night, although finding 2 people interested in the project they were unavailable for the short notice shoot. So it was again put back to the Thursday Night, this time I actually got out to the location of the shoot for the first time, but yet again the project faltered when again the assistant cameraman dropped out after just two shots, because of the late night/early morning timing of the shoot.
Planning after these drawbacks left me with only one other night to shoot, because of other commitments that left me 200 miles away from the midlands on the Friday and Saturday. However on the morning of Sunday 21st and 24 hours before the Monday deadline Plan D came good and I and a new semi-professional cameraman finally shot the scenes between 2.00am and 6.00 am, totalling up 36 minutes of footage.

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