Grindleford Shoot + My shots

Today we went to Grindleford and shot the sequence we had planned previously. We discussed the whole narrative through once again as a group the day before and did detailed plans of what shots/sequences we individually wanted to film. I chose the start of the POV sequence in Grindleford to plan as well as the long take in the studio. The POV sequence is what we filmed today and it began with a mid shot of a stone bench with the thief walking into shot and looking around. It then cuts to a close up of his face looking just above camera which then cuts to an over the shoulder of the bag in the thief's hands. Then it cuts to the same mid shot of the thief from before looking from side to side which then transitions into a close up of him looking slowly over his shoulder. This then cuts to a first person POV of the person following him on top of the hill behind him. It will then cut back to the same close up of him looking back around and then to a mid shot of him walking quickly off. Here is the storyboard I completed to show this sequence visually:

To make the most of our time and so I didn't have to keep setting up after each little shot, I decided to do a run through of the scene at all the camera angles (minus the first person POV of the hill) before re-positioning and this worked very effectively as it allowed me to view the action at different angles which may effect the position or frequency of each shot.

Here are some stills from the footage recorded today:

I think the shots came out as I planned them to up to a point, due to the storyboarding and advanced planning that went into them, however the thing we couldn't control was the light coverage, which kept changing in between shots which proved problematic when adjusting the exposure on the camera. We originally wrote down the F value for the opening shots to keep it as close to that as possible when changing angles, however this became irrelevant when the sun kept dipping in and out of clouds all day. What we should have done in hindsight is used the reflector and possibly a flag to control the light as much as possible during the sequence. Overall though, I am happy the way this small sequence turned out and how in uses POV to add to the drama of the narrative.