Filming day 1!
Today myself, Vittorio and Andrei set off at 7am and arrived at the Cathedral for 8am, we was all very excited to begin filming and had been told by our contributors before hand what they would be doing - therefor we was excited to get the filming started!
We began by discussing with Steve and apprentice Marella McGee what we would be doing and that we would make sure to work around them, we said we're going to be moving around taking different angles and hoped we wouldn't disturb them too much. Steve and Marella seemed happy with this and let us begin filming.
We first all began setting up and I set up the canon we book out, and Andrei set up his own camera which he helpfully brought along!
Vic began double checking everything and setting up the tripods.
We decided as there was three of us and only two cameras, we would have to try collaborate with each other and let everyone have a chance at filming.
To begin, myself and Vic worked on one camera and focused on the wide shots - whilst Andrei focused on the close ups as he was using a lense which created beautiful shots for us.
Throughout the day we switched around and took a lot of shots of Marella carving into a relief print of a lion sculpture and creating a cast for it.
So far we was happy with the shots we'd got as we got a variety of close ups, wide shots and close ups of our contributors. I loved the close up shots we got as the detail was amazing in the lion and looked really lovely on the cameras.
After a long day of filming Marella and Steve, we decided to break for lunch and then carry on upstairs.
After lunch we went up to the drawing board and discussed with Darren if we was able to film him drawing.
Darren agreed and we began setting up around him - trying not to be too loud as it was a quiet room and the measurements he was taking was very precise as he is measuring out for the minor mullions to be fit back into the Cathedral once they have been worked!
We also decided to use the tracks with us to create beautifully smooth panned shots of Darren. Whilst myself and Andrei set out the tracks and began filming, Vic decided to go back downstairs to get some more shots of Steve working by himself as we had been told he was working into a sample piece for an American investor whom had come to discuss sample pieces with Heather and Steve.
After shooting some tracking shots of Darren, we noticed some really nice scenery around the drawing office of some sample stones, we decided to create another tracking shot of the stones and scenery which worked really well!
The filming day was a huge success as everyone was extremely helpful with us and we all got a lot of shots.
Here are some photos from filming today!
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