Shooting for second poem: Day 1

We set off to Ilkley Moor and Wiz drove us again. Tim and Joel wrote dialogue so we took the sound booth with us along with the same XD camera and tripod as in the first film. The weather was pretty terrible but we set off up the mountain and filmed towards the top of the quarry. Weather conditions from the off were very difficult to work with but we were determined to complete as much footage as possible. I was filming as Wiz co-assisted and looked over the sound booth. Tim and Joel had co-produced and co-directed the second poem which i felt was fair seeing as I directed and filmed the first. I didn't want to act as if i wanted to take credit for everything we've done.

I was absolutely freezing but the show had to go on, we were all cold. We battled through an hour and a half of wind and rain before we got caught in a blizzard of snow which stopped us from carrying on, so we had to reschedule for a later date to finish the rest of the film. It was so annoying because the weather rushed some of our scenes, we just wanted to get it over and done with until it got impossible, and the last thing we wanted was to damage any equipment by getting wet.

I didn't feel the chemistry was right for this one. We all got there and seemed a little clueless. It was almost like we didn't really know what we were doing, but again i think that was down to the weather.
The location itself was good, it really emphasised the title of the poem 'Silky Winds', and some of the scenery was really beautiful. We attempted a time lapse which Joel wanted so we set up the tripod and camera, and after two minutes Joel wanted to move on. I wasn't sure myself it was long enough for a time lapse but hopefully it looks good enough for us to capture some decent scenery. This time round I was worried i had been heard enough for the first film that many suggestions i'd thrown in were quickly dismissed. I didn't mind too much as I assumed the others new what they were doing...

I'd seen this puddle which from a good enough angle, you could reflect the scenery off of it whilst the wind was blowing and zoomed up it almost looked like the sea. I'd suggested for Tim to walk over it and start his journey which is what we attempted to capture. I got a little frustrated that i got hurried off filming that clip that it wouldn't film as i'd imagined it to look like.

One scene was Tim having to be and look ill, looking like he was going to faint. I had an idea of during the scene of the camera back tracking as he is walking towards it at the beginning, instead, he holds the camera in his hands and follows the position of his head without looking into the camera. His head would obviously be the main subject in the centre of that clip, and everything behind it would move and not look stable which is what i thought we were trying to portray. I was very disappointed because i got told it was too much effort and Joel wanted to film that clip instead.