This weekend I decided to film the wood scenes with the smoke grenades and I chose this location as the yellow and green are quite contrasting colours and enables me to colour correct in FCPX more effectively.
We found a clearing in the woods that was perfect for what I had envisioned and we we're extremely lucky that there wasn't many people about only the occasional dog walker. First we scouted the area a bit more in case there was something better. We found a little path that led to another clearing only this time there was lots of bushes and the sky was very visible. I thought this would be a great place to shoot an establishing shot with the smoke grenade and it turned out to be just so:
We then went back inside the woods to the original clearing and begin shooting some more. I bought 5 smoke grenades and we already tested 2 out just to make sure they would work and the colour pigment was strong enough. The wind also that day was perfect as it was barely there but was enough to softly carry the smoke away.
The smoke was quite dense too which also worked well.
After setting up, we tried to get as many shots of the smoke as possible - we only had one DSLR camera with us so we used a Nokia Lumia phone for some footage also as the quality for it is quite high. After the smoke shots I had to quickly change into my costume as it was freezing! We shot some cinematic footage which look great on camera, especially with the sun light peaking through the trees and through the skirt train.
Finally, to end the day as it was nearing sunset and getting quite bitter; we saw some spider webs glistening in the sunlight which looked very pretty and with the DSLR I used some focus-pulls to create the 'bokeh' effect which look really soft and delicate in comparison to my strong, sharp studio look.
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