Edale Production stills

Due to our busy student schedules we could reluctantly find no time to go location scouting before the shoot and so were relying on the landscapes during the day and were quite pleased to find some really quite pleasent views of Edale.

'Wistful' look location

The inexpensive water shield

Location of the litter trail

This photo is the adjusted establishing shot, initially we had planned to do the establishing shot as one long take leading in from the first but proved troublesome.

There were some sceduling issues involving us walking up and down a hill a few more times than was needed, also a location scout visit might have proved fruitful, but apart from that; a very productive day.
I have found it does seem to be a very particular skill, trying to hard-wire a set of emotions into a piece of film. Creating and manipulating images and colour in order to connote a certain feeling of wistfulness or calmness without overflowing into boredom is no easy feat.

As a result of this we will alter our fine cut to have longer cuts, the staggered shots although was a good concept didn't work in practice and just looks awful; we changed the location of the establishing shot to just outside the pub instead ( for ease, the pub was full of students ) and the time of day of the ending shot had to be changed as we had hoped for a beautiful sunset but were (rightfully?) rewarded with none.