Professional Practice - Test Shoot

Test Shoots

We never really had a lot of time when it came to testing shoots with being at university during the week and filming Gillingham home games on weekends it was a struggle to find any time to be able to get to the stadium. So Ewan and I discussed before going to one home game to potentially go off and get a few shots for this unit test shoots. As we were restricted for time because we had to focus more on the game that day rather than promotional video some of our shots look rushed and look made up on the spot. That's because we had an idea of how we wanted it to look, but we had not gone over it as a group to finalize what shots we definitely wanted.

Ewan managed to quickly edit together a small video showcasing what we managed to achieve in the space of 20 minutes.

The first shots you see in the video is the entrance to the conference center, this is the entrance fans will use if they have either purchased and exclusive ticket which allows them to eat before the match. Fans will also use this entrance if they have purchased a standard ticket as this is the way to the factory (bar) which is where some die-hard fans go before the game. As you can see from the clips that this entrance is extremely busy on match day so we weren't able to get some smooth tracking shots.

These test shots are going to be really helpful when it comes to the filming days. Being able to see what fans can be like during game day has really made us re-think some of the shots we had planned due to the fact we would not have been able to move to dolly on wheels around smoothly with fans swarming into the entrance.