filming diary:day 5- re-film

Today we went back to Alex's house to re-film the pyro scene, as we needed better smoke etc. We needed to re-film the entirety of the scene though as the weather had changed meaning the continuity of the shots would have been non existent. We turned up without a storyboard or shot list as we knew exactly we needed to film and it took about an hour less than last time. We got rid of some shots that we thought were boring or didn't really add to the narrative and proceeded. This time, we wanted more shots of me lighting the pyro. This proved very difficult because we needed to be fast and precise with lack of mistakes. As we only had one pyro, we needed to film me light it, get on my bike and cycle, all whilst the person filming had to capture me lighting it, getting on my bike and then running to the car to film. This was hard because the pyro only lasted about 30 seconds from lighting to the smoke becoming thin and going out. We had rehearsed the manoeuvre around 5 times because we could not afford to slip up. We wanted as much footage as we could get with the pyro so we had to be well organised. Things went well and practising the event paid off as we didn't make a mistake.