Some prep stuff

In the absence of having anything that I can really talk about freely at the moment and the constant promises to update these pages I thought I'd share some of the stuff I did to prep for the shoot.

First up is this tiny snippet of video of a doll lying in a compromising position on the grass in my garden.



I had planned to shoot a drunken sequence for the film with a continuously revolving camera to try and enhance its drunken/romance/dreamlike qualities, but it's a minefield when it comes to editing - trying to work out of the usual rules.

Although this particular little bit of vid is a perfect example of how not to do something it was just enough to help me realise that I could use a revolving camera if I wanted to, without too much fear of what I might have to work with in the edit.

In the end time and stock got the better of me though and I just had to think on my feet for another way to shoot the scene.  It worked out just as well as my original idea and only took 40 minutes to shoot.  There's a lesson to be learned in there somewhere.