Beau Vine Filming

Yesterday was quite productive, filming wise. I thought i'd better take the time to write about today's scenes as it was originally the reason I started this blog. But since it's turned into more of an outlet for my photography and creative mind in general rather than just the filming side of things. Max and I have had this skit idea floating around for a month or two now and thought it was time to get it out of the way. To put things simply, vibrating mobile phones sound like cows mooing. Yep. We thought this was also a great chance to use Beau Vine (pronounced bovine), vegan activist and nature enthusiast loosely based around our friend Chalky.

We drove to Margate, my home town, and drove around the back-roads until we found some cows. It really was quite a nice experience. I love cows. I didn't. But now I do. They're great. Like giant cuddly dopey dogs. They also spent about half an talking to each other and talking to us. Calves running free everywhere. This is when Max and I decided we're going to go halves in a cow. One day.

For the first part the shots came out really nicely. The road was in a valley and the sun cast shadow over the road and the fields but it was still high enough to throw some direct light onto Max, who's was dressed as Beau Vine. We got as many shots as we could before the sun went behind the hill. Once it had disappeared we kind of had to shoot a different scene as not to mix lighting environments between them. So I just positioned Max in front of some cows and he rambled on for about 10 minutes about what cows mean to him. You can imagine. You can imagine.