On the 26th November, we travelled down (to what we hoped would be our last shoot this year) to Peterborough for another day of filming at the pet refuge. This time we went down with shot list (shown previously) as usual, however focused more on what we needed to capture rather than roaming around and capturing random shots. I enjoyed working on this shoot, the organisation made it more focused and therefore made me more productive than previous shoots, where I'd wander the area and shoot random shots wherever possible.
However, due to good communication between our director and our contributors, we managed to use our time a lot better and capture some good shots.
I also got to work with a completely new camera. Even though we decided that we wanted to keep the footage on one style of camera to ensure all the footage could be formatted the same way/also allow me to get used to the camera (as I'd never used it previously), we unfortunately run into the problem of media stores only having XF100 available at the time we needed it. Yet, I found this to be an advantage to both the project as well as my personal skills.
On this shoot, I was able to work with the Canon XF305, which I like better than the FX100, but I will explain why in a different post to keep focused on the shoot. With these cameras, we worked well and captured some great footage, mainly interviews from Pam & Toni that were more focused on them and their role at the refuge (as we previously captured interviews about the animals). I'm happier with the visuals we captured on this day than I'd seen previously (the shoot I wasn't present at captured an interview which was in an unfortunate place and overexposed). I'd like to have had more time with the volunteers, following them around and working with them to capture more close up footage (as we mainly focused on long shots for this feature on this shoot) however I feel it was a successful shoot, and hope that this shows in the post-production process.
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