I tried to prep and plan as much as I could as from previous shoots I've realised how vital it is to actually know what you're going to do beforehand, as when you turn up to your location, not having a clue or an idea on the structure of the shoot day, you begin the crumble and ultimately lose yourself time shooting, and if its shooting in the day, outside, in autumn, vital sunlight.
As my concept for the interpretation is based primarily around reincarnation/nature, I wanted to be outside primarily, shooting beautiful close ups, long shots and try my hardest to get some wildlife creatures involved as I feel it could definitely be a really handy cut to emphasize the reincarnation element I was going for. Also it'd be extremely relevant to my poem.
Plan -
I knew I had atleast one day with perfect weather, (being in Manchester, I had to take this open window as you don't tend to get many great days) so I planned around that and drawn a storyboard to give me some structure to base myself of.
(Extremely basic storyboard)
I had a form of a shot list also ready for my first shoot day and a lot of notes to hand but also still allowing for new ideas to come to mind, as the narrative was quite an ambiguous one, i could manipulate and gather footage without any restrictions due to not having a real structured narrative which ultimately gave me peace of mind when i was going to be out on shoot.
(Another woefully bad storyboard)
I knew i was going to face some challenges along the way, the main one being weather, and also not having any crew members to help me set up shot and just generally assist me on the day. So i had to orchestrate with my girlfriend who was fortunately in Manchester at the same time, with her when she could help me film.
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