When we arrived at the precise location, I was not ready to shoot as there were a small number of people walking past such as kids, parents, runners. When the coast was clear we began to shoot, I was able shoot shot number 69, 70 and 71 with ease.
However the worst possible incident happened, the site officers of the park saw as filming he came to us and asked weather we had a permit to shoot we said no. He said we were only allowed to shoot with the camera but not with the tripod because of health and safety issues.
Once he left me and Dylan had to decide whether we wanted to film with just the camera in my hand. I felt that this wasn’t a good option as the tripod was a beneficial tool; it enabled me to shoot in a stable and fixed position. Also as it was a running scene I needed the tripod to do pan shot and a mid shot zoom from a long distance, plus it was a windy day so shooting all these shot hand held would have clearly ruined the quality and meaning of my film. At first we decided to try to do the hand held option we did it for shot number 72, 73 and 74 but when I watched it back it never looked as a good I imagined. At this moment the site office was gone, we had to go for it and shoot with the tripod it was a risk as it might get caught again, we had to take the risk.
This risk meant that we had to shoot quickly and not waste any time. However this wasn’t the case there were various problems the first problems was the tripod. When shooting the first low angle mid shot I wasn’t able to move the tilt lock (shooting this shot meant that the camera had to be tilt upward) it was in a fixed position and I tried to loosen each part but for some reason I wasn’t able to loosen the tilt lock. This was time consuming with the possibility of the site officers coming back I had to hold the camera in this low angle position.
After shooting this shot the camera fell, luckily after resisting it it worked.
The last problem was shooting the running scene, shot number 74 was a mid shot of Dylan running the camera had to be in front him (long distanced) and zoom in into face as he’s running towards the camera. The camera had to be in an exact position to see he’s entire face in the camera frame, as he was running I wasn’t able to achieve this straight away – after many takes it was made possible.
When doing this shot, loads of people were walking up the hill and out the gate. This wasted a lot of time.
This shot continued from the 360 degree signifying what he’s thinking about, in the dialogue he says ‘I know I can bit this’.
Then I tried I tried to recreate this part in the fix you song from 2:25 to 2:28 (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skUJ-B6oVDQ).
It’s just a pan shot, but since the tripod couldn’t get as high as he’s head I had to do it hand held, but within the shot I had to make sure you could see he’s shoulders and head whilst he was running in order to create an uplifting atmosphere, when filming it took time to perfect since Dylan was running I had to keep up with he’s pace, we eventually got a good shot and you can see he's shoulder and head, as shown in the image.
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