Playing mum for the week: Part 3. Fueled by food

Day 3 started with a bit of lie in for the crew, less of a lie-in for me as I got up to prepare us a full English (as seen in the Behind-the-scenes video). Once breakfast was demolished we had to pack up, tidy and say goodbye to the house before walking with Kay to the cemetery for the bird release sequence, filming as we walked.

Kay had two birds to release which gave us two takes to get the shot. We were not going to leave anything to chance as we knew this was one of the most important sequences for the story. With that in mind, we had four camera's ready: Robyn on the c300; Will on my Coolpix W300 (which is a more sports-oriented camera with fast autofocus) at 60fps; Myself on the Canon 600d at 50fps; Stan using my phone in 1080p at 60fps and Rory on sound. The four cameras meant we would get different angles and depth variation, especially as Stan, was able to get the closer front position that showed the few feathers that fell off in take-off.

Once we had filmed the bird release Robyn and Will followed Kay throughout the graveyard as she chatted anecdotally. Whilst the rest of the crew was filming this I took this time to get more shots of wild birds in the surrounding trees and on the graves. Once we'd finished filming we headed towards the exit and it was at this point that I was able to get written confirmation of location permission for the cemetery.

When we arrived back at Kays the main camera team focused on getting some better shots of Kay explaining her work in the hospital area before breaking for lunch, whilst I got extra B-roll around Kay's house. Once it was almost sunset Stanley and I headed back to the cemetery in hopes of getting shots of the rooks and crows who are more active at this time, after which we returned to Kays house so that the crew could say their final goodbyes and thanks to Kay giving her the bird umbrella as a little thank you.

We had a quick pit stop on our way home for some food to fuel up driver Robyn before plenty of coffee on the ferry, assisting Robyn with unloading the equipment and all of us collapsing in bed.