Commissions | The Shoot: Day 4 (Interviewing Aidan, Vehicle Sequence, G/Vs and Closing Words)

Today was the last day of shooting and we still had a fair amount to get done - I had to interview Aidan about his driving lessons and thoughts on the cost of driving, the rest of the opening sequence, some G/Vs and the final piece to camera.  For the closing shot, Aidan and Sophie (my girlfriend) kindly agreed to help me shoot, as everyone else in the group was unavailable and we were quickly running out of time.

Crew:

Alex Hargood: Presenter
Katie Joslin: Camera, Sound
Sonia Zelenická: Runner
Aidan Robinson-Jones: Camera, Sound
Sophie Hitchings: Runner

Interviewees:

Aidan Robinson-Jones: My best friend; driving student

The Shoot:

12:00 P.M. - I rig my car to shoot the interview using two GoPro cameras.

12:30 P.M. - I pick up Aidan from his house and we drive around to film his interview.

1:30 P.M. - Aidan and I meet with Katie and Sonia in a car park in Gravesend to shoot the opening sequence.

2:00 P.M. - Sonia leaves as we wrap filming on the opening sequence and Katie, Aidan and myself begin filming G/Vs from the outside of my car.

4:00 P.M. - We finish shooting the G/Vs as Katie leaves.

7:00 P.M. - I pick up Sophie, and the rest of us head to the location for the closing shot.

7:30 P.M. - Me, Aidan and Sophie arrive at the park near the A2 in Gravesend.

9:00 P.M. - Shooting concludes.

Reflections:

We had an issue with the audio equipment when shooting the interview with Aidan, and so I had to cut the recording to fix it, and then go over some topics we had already spoken about - this was a shame as the initial interview went very well and the answers were just what we needed.  Even so, what we ended up with was satisfactory.  I feel we rushed shooting the opening sequence a little, as Sonia had to shoot off fairly quickly, but we somehow managed to get everything we needed.  I would have liked to have got more of a variety in locations from which we shot the G/Vs of my car driving around but we should have enough for the edit.  If we had the time I would have loved to reshoot the closing shot, or at least try to plan better around sunset, as we lost the natural lighting very quickly, and with no artificial light available, the final footage looked very grainy.  This is something we will need to work hard on during post-production.