Improvised filming equipment

In order for our flashback/chase scene to work, we needed a smooth dolly shot style as opposed to the handheld/stedicam work which we purposely used for our opening. We improvised and thought that a trolley would fit perfectly in helping us achieve a smooth shot. Our camera man George Nolan, sat in the trolley, and we placed the tripod with the camera in between his legs to keep it as steady as possible. In order to achieve this shot, we had to pull the trolley backwards whilst gradually building up speed. We had one person on either side of the trolley to stabilise it and keep it straight and on track. We also had one person pulling the trolley smoothly in order to achieve this gradual build up of pace. It was very tricky to master getting a smooth and accurate shot, so it took us a few takes until we produced a shot we were happy with. We had to set a general marker to get all the charcters within the shot and also to improve the symmetry, as we discovered when reviewing our shots that in a lot of them you could not see the other suited actor clearly.