Planning

I have realised that I have not blogged about the planning of this shoot. This was mainly due to the speed in which we came up with the idea of a lost hiker in the middle of Edale. The idea came from brainstorming and just writing down different things that we could relate to the area and things that we could relate to hiking such as being lost or hurt in the middle of nowhere. We did show our initial planning/idea and got feedback on how to shoot the film sucessful or what would work well. This feedback proved useful and we took the advice during the shoot making sure that we played on the feeling of being lost and how that would create panic. The planning was quite minimal as we had never been too Edale and therefore could not script the film specifically to the location so we had a list of shots that we would like to include in the film and decided on a style to shoot in. On the day we found a location suitable too our vision in the early stages and used this as the basis for our film. I think we could have improved the pre production planning with a trip to Edale before the date of the shoot to decide on a location but the way we did it worked fine as we had a general idea of what most of the location was and also the film was not location specific. We decided early on that Will would be the protagonist as it would be inpractical for us to get an actor to come to Edale for a whole day and he had the most clothing similar to that of a hiker as he had hiked somewhere else on a previous occasion. The only other planning was to aquire either a compass or a map as a prop for the protagonist in our film and that was not hard as Will already owned one. We had also decided on using a tripod for still shots at distance then using handheld for close ups as the slight movement has a way of engaging the viewer and we wanted to go for this style. This moving camera seems to work this way becase people do not tend to sit completely rigid and stare at somebody especially if they are hiking, it was necessary to make the film seem more realistic and engrossing. The main idea of this film is too tell the story of a Hiker slowly getting more and more lost in the wilderness in the most engrossing and engaging way possible without losing the interest of the audience.