Ok, to set the scene, (last night)

It was my first night of filming the first scene of my first "proper" movie.
I did all the prep work (yes even made sure my batteries were charged) Lights in place, camera set up, the talent ready and in focus, even a smoke machine and I remembered to cover the smoke detectors. I really thought I'd ticked all the boxes.

I do what was a difficult shoot (working with a 6 year old doing a dance).

Everything thing seemed ok till I got home and looked at the footage on my computer. I found the effect I was looking for hadn't worked. I was going for a strong back light with smoke to try and make the walls invisible but unfortunately this effect didn't work very well on the long shots. I knew it was not working and tried to compensate sooting at F11 with ND filter but it looks like I didn't do it right. The walls were just too visible.

So there's my wasted night of filming.

I was wondering if you guys had any similar story's you'd like to share.

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Every thing said by me should be taken with a pinch of salt. Unless you have high blood pressure, then I would recommend a salt substitute.

No wasted at all.

If you go back and try the same thing again with exactly the same setup without changing a thing - THAT would be wasted.

Someone once said something along the lines of "We learn from our failures, not our successes"

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Tim

Well thats true I did learn to things last night. One to get the look I wanted get a bigger room. AND get this damp your C47's if you use halogen work lights !!!

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You need to get a grip Midnight, you can't expect Spielberg to call if your going to lark around

I thought you where driving back from Wales today.

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Look mate if you can drive from your place to East grinstead and back in half an hour, I can do the same from Wales. Mine was the fastest caravan in the West.

Rocket powered caravan. Now I've heard of everything.

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He strapped it on one of those helicopters of his Midnight.

That's just cheating, which would be a typical Shrimpy ploy to out do me.

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What he's not telling us is that he left at 2am in the morning to avoid the traffic!

(Oh yes, and he had his mates from the force give him a blue light escort!)