The long take

I had fun last saturday shooting with the bolex camera. It would have been better if the temperature was a little cooler. My group didn't shoot first, but we helped out another group with their shoot. I was the grip, i guess thats right, pushing their camera operator around for their tracking shot. I had to keep the camera centered on the actors, by matching my speed of pushing to their walking speed. It took me a couple of times to get the speed of each actor, but some were not consisted, but i managed.



My group's orginal idea was that a person went behind something and another person came out. We change that to a so called love story about a pumpkin head guy and a scream head girl. I was the pumpkin head guy. We ran through the blocking a few times to were we felt comfortable with what we had. There was no problems with shooting it except that we had less then 56 seconds then what we supposed to have. The film did come out good, i loaded the film backwards, but thats ok, we can fixed it in final cut pro. It was a good experince using the bolex camera and it helps get me into blocking and timing the shot before shooting it.