K.H. - Reflection on shoot at the Pantiles

• I took a shared directorial role with Freya during this shoot, directing the actors and taking a small starring role with Harry.
• We feel that the blood effects went well, and our past experience in working with allowed to maximise efficiency in implementing it. The shots that required Harry to be bloody we tried to shoot together to try and avoid having to clean the blood off and re-apply it. At one point we got Harry to hold some of the bloody tissues we had already used against his neck as if he cleaned most of the blood from the previous bite off.
• I had to shoot using the glide came, shoulder rig, and the tripod, the glide cam being most difficult to operate as I had little experience using it and the balance wasn't entirely calibrated, but we managed to make it work by lightly tapping the centre of the support for the weight in order to keep the camera central.
• In the end we decided to mostly exclude Eleanor in the act of biting the other characters, not because we could not make the shot look effective, but because we thought it would be more effective if we cut the sequence with Eleanor stalking a victim and then simply seeing her biting them.
• The decision to have Eleanor wear the black cloak over her red dress from Harry was a good stylistic choice, as it lends the footage almost a fairy-tale element, and covers for our previous plan to have her just wearing the dress which is both nonsensical and impractical from a character perspective if she is supposed to be discretely stalking people, but by adding the cloak we maintain the glamorous style that the dress introduced which is the best of both worlds.
• We generally did not encounter many problems. The Pantiles were not particularly busy and we only occasionally had to stop to let people past, but this did not cause much of a delay. Similarly it was fairly easy to exclude cars from the shoot as a visual element that was too modern, because we were mostly shooting in allies that made it easy to design and position the camera around these limitations. Similarly losing light did not pose an issue as we did all of our shots in order.
• The only thing that could present a problem is the props of the dollars as there is supposed to be a transition between the two shots as Eleanor runs out of money after paying her victims, but considering we only had four 1 dollars in total and these could only decrease to two, this was not as effective as it could have been.