Friday evening - spend a couple of hours location scouting
Saturday - the entire parkour group meets up at 11 on Saturdays and Sundays, and so we will try to film the opening shots from the film then
Sunday - same as above
Monday - location scouting
Tuesday - rest day
Wednesday - filming locations from Monday
Thursday - filming other non-run stunts
Friday - girl scenes
Saturday - more runs Sunday - anything else left
EDIT 25/09/2009
The shoot:
I have since finished filming. Very little really went according to plan due to weather, accidents (Brendan badly damaged his knee on the Wednesday, making some shots impossible), other plans, and a whole bunch more reasons, the main being sunlight hours - I wanted the entire film to be shot at twilight, but this proved very hard, so I used a filter on the camera to give the film an orange glow when the sun was too high or low. I have shot what I feel will just about be enough footage to complete my film (not that I have any time to shoot more with my actor gone) to my current plans. While creating my vision of the film many aspects of it changed - the reality of it made some parts of my vision different. The first thing I decided to change was the human interaction. I have not shot any first person scenes, and decided that the lack of dialog and the almost inhuman stunts detaches the viewer from the plot, which makes the plot much less important. Therefore, I decided to make the film as much about the essence of the sport much more than a tale between lovers (I shot enough scenes of the girl, but intend use very few of them as she is also hard to relate to), and I have put far more emphasis on the flowing nature of the sport instead of the plot. I shot plenty of footage of the more dynamic aspects of Freerunning, and very few shots where the protagonist is not moving. I chose to shoot very little of the characters faces, to make the action more concentrated on my new theme, which is very unusual for a music video, but seems to be an emerging trend as special effects enter the arena, making some music videos seem like 21st century light shows, although this is looking too far into it. The footage has already been uploaded onto two computers (for backup) and the two tapes used safely stored away.

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