Production update

I have now started filming the Fantasy world scenes

 I spent most of my time working on shot 28. That is the 17 second long scene where, originally, she was going to run towards the camera. I realised how difficult that would be to film, and Tom Edgar suggested that I break down this shot, as lots of little cuts will add to the drama of the situation. So it now consists of 13 quick shots:

• come out from behind rock, running towards the camera
• feet running, bear foot stomping down
• running towards camera, knocked off feet
• close up of face
• getting up
• bear foot moving
• bear foot stomp
• rolling away
• close up of face
• get up and run to tree
• hiding behind tree, knocked off feet again
• getting up
• running towards the camera

most of these have been filmed, just the last two to go. I have also filmed the bird's eye view shot, so I have completed the two most difficult shots in the film. 

To film the birds eye view shot, I placed the camera on a magic arm and fixed it up high. 

I did the same to animate the giant feet.

The magic arms are so easy to use, I animated using them by loosening them slightly, moving the feet, and then tightening them back up. 

I have been adding the finished shots to the animatic as I go along, to cut down on editing time at the end.