We only visited the training ground on one occasion, however we did not feel the need to revisit as the players would only be doing the same/similar things that we would have already filmed. With access to any area of the training ground, I was given freedom of movement and was able to pull off some tracking shots and was given plenty of time to ensure that we covered the majority of the players, thus giving us plenty of references for the season review video should we need them.
The main objective of this visit was to shoot a call out penalty video with Josh Wright and Cody McDonald, two of the first team Gillingham squad members. The game entails scoring in a specific area of the goal, e.g. top right corner, that the player would have told the camera before taking the penalty, all without the goalkeepers knowledge of where they will be shooting. We had a Sony EX fixed in one location focusing directly at the goal, a Cannon DSLR camera that would be handheld and would free roam around the area creating shots from various angles, and finally we had a go pro camera hanging from one of the top corners.
The players only gave us around 15-20 minutes to film this video meaning we had to accomplish what we wanted in one take. A problem arose when the Sony EX crashed midway through the video meaning that the call out penalty video had to either be reshot on a different date, or scrapped altogether.
Despite losing out on what could have been a separate video to the season review, the day was not a total loss as we managed to film nearly an hours worth of training, something that could also be incorporated into a video.
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