The 2nd day of filming we were due to travel from Rochester to Brentwood but due to our train cancellation we had to stay at Danny's dad's so we were already in London and this meant we would be in brentwood earlier than planned. This also meant that we needed Hayley, our production Assistant to bring my laptop over to the Centre before filming so we could save all the footage and wipe the memory sticks.
We began the day by having a production meeting at Nando's. We discussed the good and bad points from the previous day and agreed on a shot list that Danny had devised. This gave us the chance to refuel and talk about the filming, multitasking at it's finest.
After making our way to the centre, Danny and Chris went and filmed some of the signs around the place so we could use them for establishing shots and information. When i filmed the display team the first time Roy mentioned about getting Danny to take part in the session and the opportunity to film him in attack work training. We discussed this before hand and wanted to put the Go Pro on Danny and film it from both that and the other camera so we could use the footage as a potential physical representation of the cynophobia sufferers fears. This worked well and we were excited to use this as a potential idea. Roy also mentioned about getting a dog to bark into the camera. This was a great idea and poor Chris had to film one of the dogs barking right down the lens and it was pretty scary.
Chris and Danny then both took part in a race with 2 dogs and an obstacle course. This gave us a good opportunity to get some action shots from the shot list. I took control of the camera and managed to get a couple of nice shots and the boys did a good job as they were aware of the camera they managed to keep out of all the shots without loosing control of their dogs. Then while the boys took charge of the camera again, i placed the go pro in various places around the course and managed to get some interesting shots of dog jumping over the camera and gave us a different option for a potential edit.
We then attached the go pro to a dog to see the stability. The first test didn't go well and the go pro was far too unstable for us to use. We tried a different fixing but still the shots were far to shaky. We then were given a harness by one of the trainers and said i could go away and try and fashion something more secure which was a great idea.
We then drove back to Rochester and the filming went really well so were pleased with the day.
Stay safe,
Helen
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