Live Brief 2 - ManiaFrame Shoot - Wynyard Woodland Park

Another important shoot day for the production was the runaway scene and death scene of a main character, this was to take place in forest and we researched multiple forests and locations for the scene but landed on Wynyard Woodland Park, as it was suitable for filming and was also closer by than many of the others. The shoot was one day and only required three actors. I was driver, runner and actor on this shoot, playing the part of young Abraxa's. We had to carry the equipment into the forest to a spot we searched for early that had everything we needed close by and would hopefully be quiet with less people walking by. We had some issue with sound as we were given the wrong SD card and the recorder rejected it, so we were down without sound for the shoot but it wasn't too bad as  the scene was to be dubbed in a different language with english subtitles.

The location was beautiful and looks great for filming and will translate great on film, there weren't really any complications or mess ups, it ran pretty smoothly, as always time constraints was our main issue, and I feel like Glenn may have over scheduled the day with too many scenes to capture so we were in a rush to capture all the footage so we wouldn't have to go back for a second shoot day. It was quite stressful with how long certain shots were taking to set up, knowing we one had not a lot of time left and more and more shots to get. Once the filming started it would get more progressive but any breaks were just making us fall behind.

We managed to capture all the important scenes and cut aways and quite a few look really good whereas some may lack quality due to Dan's camera work with it not been in focus on the right thing a few times. Overall I'd say the shoot day at Wynyard Woodland Park was a success and it was great to shoot at a new interesting location which would set our production apart from others, as it was another great look environment and location to add to the production. Whereas a lot of other productions are using a lot of local and common looking locations for their work.