The day had finally arrived for our shoot and we were all very excited and ready to go. We got there at around 8 with a view of starting at 10.30. Tom had organised us a shoot order and I gave Amelia a call sheet for her own reference a couple of days before the shoot. Once the lights were all set up, we were ready to go and pretty much on schedule.
I had Kat take the timings whilst Shahid read the words out for our wide shots, which we decided to do first. The day ran very smoothly in general. We let Amelia choose her own music as we felt it would be easier for her to dance to something which she knows would feel right for the quality of movement we wanted. This meant that we were going to have to record sounds later on for the soundtrack.
At a couple of points throughout the day we had to stand for a few minutes and figure out how the lighting was going to work as we wanted front mid shots and close-ups of the dancer, but we had to move the lights around to do it. This could have been better planned, but we sorted it out very quickly and we just switched some shots around on the shot list in order to make it work more efficiently for us. This was especially problematic for the intended VFX shot of Amelia going through the mirror as we had to keep reshooting it for continuity purposes, which we could have planned better. However we stayed on schedule all day and finished when we expected to. We all had a fun day, and Amelia told me that it was a really nice way of working for her.
Throughout the day we also had Laura, who did make-up for us and Kat and Lauren as our runners. It was much easier having them around and made things run very smoothly. We also had them recording the day with photos and videos as well for our own memories and to give to Amelia after the project was finished.
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