Footage

I have now managed to get everyone together and take the footage I needed. After a days filming there a some parts that I would consider usable.

For the location I knew I wanted the shot to look like it could have been taken on the training ground, so I picked a quiet part of a local park with a fence and some trees in the background. It was early afternoon and the sun was high so shadows would not be too much of an issue, it was also fairly cloudless so that the light was clean and bright.

I set up a number of shots involving different people being tackled and different positions for people to stand in, for example one of the tackles was filmed by throwing the ball out from behind the camera. In another we tried having the subject take a high ball to try and get a more dramatic tackle, this didn't work out but it was interesting to have the footage and consider what could be done with it.



This is a tackle that came out looking dramatic, I like the way the ball is dropped here and the impact is fairly obvious, I feel like I could work some nice particle effects in here.



A lot of the tackles didn't come out looking as I would have hoped, I decided to film some kicks too, which I could use to form part of the piece.

Here a drop kick



and here a box kick



I like both kicks but it think the second one would probably be more usable, its longer and more happens in front of the camera. There is good opportunity here to have an effect that follows the eyeline of the actor, and shadows that stretch out across the grass.