Circus - Street Shoot #2 and Circus

Today we planned to do some of the circus (sadly without the clown as we have had to recast). We also had to redo the tracking dolly street shot again as looking back at it yesterday, it was a bit of a mess. 

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Thanks to Beth for this video!

We did a few takes (close up and wide) but if I got it so all three of the actors were in, we could see the classroom no matter what. So we fixed this by finding a curtain and putting boxes on the floor. 

Our producer sticking up the curtain

11 takes later, we moved on to the circus shots. There was a huge white block in the middle of it, but it could be moved (luckily! They also refrained from putting music on for us for sound). We did the Zoltar scene first and the director came up with a new trippy angle involving the crystal ball on the right side of the frame (to dirty the shot) and using the slider to get a close up of Lacee. We had to put the crystal ball on top of some ladders, on top of some duct tape, on top of a container (sadly no pictures of this!) and the shot itself looks pretty impressive. 

The director directing Lacee

Moving onto the next scene, where the Dad gives Sophie money for sweets and the rides. This took some time as batteries were running out. And we needed to buy strawberry laces. 

Tillie helping me dirty up the pick and mix cup so it fits with the aesthetic

Actors also needed to hit marks spot on otherwise they went out of frame. It took a few takes, but we got it. We also did each scene with various angles, close ups and cutaways. We also did a demon eye cutaway for the editor to play around with.

Overall, a good days shoot! Can't wait to look back at the edited footage. 

*update* Turns out some of the close ups for the street scene have a tiny soft focus. It was hard to focus as they were moving around a lot, ideally I would have a focus puller, as I could not tell and I was busy tracking the actors.