Our first shoot was at evening/night shoot at Merri Park which aimed to capture our lead singers/characters running through the woods. In terms of equiptment we hired a Canon 5D w/ 50m & 24-105mm , Tripod, 3 portable LED light pannels and had on hand a Canon 70D, some torches and a homemade reflector.

While we waiting for the lead singers to arrive and for the sun to go down we decided to get some nature shots that we could use for projections later on. As planned we shot trees, branches, leaves and the sky. Probably the best projection shot we got was of a branch partially lit with a torch which would dart around the frame.

Once the actresses arrived and there make up was complete we started to gather shots of them running through the bush. Many these shots were shot with a large aperture creating a shallow depth of field. I thought this was a mistake seeing the characters were constantly moving and reviewing the footage, a lot of it is out of focus. Of course it can help having a open aperture when shooting in low-light but we could have easily of closed the aperture and lit the scene with the LED light panels. I was assigned to lighting but no one else thought it was necessary to light the scene at all untill it was actually ‘dark’.

We all had roles of sorts, which worked out well. Andrea directed, Ella filmed, I did lighting and Jenny was in charge of getting the projection shots . We did follow the shot list roughly although we seemed to go off path a bit as the night progressed. All in the all the shoot went OK, it was a long night but we did it. I think the footage will be best used in fast cuts between the studio footage to distract the viewer from the lack of focus.