Plan for Monday 3rd October: Mining
- Lighting: handheld torches, head torches.
- Video: Handheld Camera, "Go Cam".
- Photo shoot: Still Camera
- Clothing: Waterproof jacket and leggings, fleece, wellies, rucksack for technical equipment, spare clothes so I don't get my car wet.
- Technical Equipment: Laptop to edit and analyze footage. Also to upload images taken.
We have decided to film the location at Reeth Moor Estate, which I went and checked out the places to film. I also got permission to film at Spence Level, Old Gang and Hard Level from the Head Gamekeeper of Reeth Estate, and we went on Monday 3rd October. Me and Isaac went in order for the photo shoot and ideas for shots, and we got 60 photo's of various ruins and mines, mainly at Old Gang and Spence Level. As well as the actual photo shoot, we recorded inside the mine, our ideas, equipment and so on, giving you an idea on what it is like outside a still image. In order to film inside a mine we had to be prepared and we did a plan for our trip as seen above, listing everything needed for shooting the footage and taking the images. We went straight after college to Old Gang, where we filmed some of our ideas for the shots of the cyclists; there is a bit of filming where we have considered a Pan Shot, where the cyclists will come around the track, which we have considered to be a high-angle shot. We took pictures of the ruins, with me and Isaac in them, as well as the shots just of the ruins, just having a bit of fun with the camera's, getting used to them and also getting ideas for the future teaser trailer. At Old Gang, there is lots of old archways which we could potentially use for our shots in the trailer, and I have footage walking through a bit of underground archway at Old Gang, which you may be able to use. Old Gang used to be a smelt mill of lead mining industry of the 18th-19th century, so the remains are reasonably old and are decaying, which gives us great potential for some freaky, ruined shots which I think will suit our genre of a psychological drama; As the walls and the location represents the minds of the people inside the mine decaying and essentially becoming "ruined" like the surroundings they will be based in. After investigating Old Gang, we got ourselves prepared for the mine, and got all the cameras set etc. Isaac owns a "Go Cam", which I think will help us in some of the shots of our trailer; the camera is only small but can be attached to the person, which will enable a good point of view shot (POV), which will portray the characters emotions in the mine, as well as an accurate view of the inside of the mine. The Go Cam also allows us to film underwater, which would be an effective POV shot if we could get the right place to do so. So we filmed ourselves before we entered Spence Level explaining what we were going to do and trying to achieve, and then we entered. Once we entered and filmed it you could automatically see that the cameras were not picking up what me and Isaac could see, and lighting was a big issue inside the mine, so on the day or another time we go into the mine, I'm going to bring a spotlight, which may help the camera actually pick up the images. After we went into Spence Level, we went into Hard Level, which is just down the road from Spence Level, but we didn't know what to expect as we haven't been down this mine before. Apparently Hard Level goes down for mines into the landscape, which was quite a cool thought we had, but then we entered and the water was up to our waste and we weren't exactly prepared for that, so we decided we may do that mine another day. However we did take the Go Cam in the entrance to show you what it is like, and it almost looks like a cave. Here we tested the underwater POV shot, which didn't exactly go to plan as lighting it up didn't work very well, but again if we got better lighting it could be much more effective shot for potentially in the trailer.
Here are the pictures from our visit to Reeth Estate: 
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