Complicated take

The next task after the first take was done, was to build the scene for take no 2.
This appeared to be more complicated than we anticipated.

Running from and to 3 different positions, changes in focus and shadows all over the place, is a hard task to plan.
At this time we were in Copenhagen but we could sneak in to a public library to try to look at the positioning of Spot.

We found that the picture was to tight, and that Spot had to run much closer to the camera. This took the rest of the day and the day after to build as Spot has to cover about 1,5 meters in only 10 steps. In some of steps Spot is actually in the air!

3 days later Mikael is still struggling with this take but hopefully we'll be able to look at it tomorrow.
meanwhile we got early and partial versions of the take.

The control web-cam, standing in a different angle, normally used for "line tests" is the one angle you normally don't see.
The other one is the correct picture.
Mikael had to move the line test camera since Spot was running directly at it, in that he created a spontaneous cut "on the fly". We should try this more often :)

Hopefully we can persuade Mikael to write his own experience of this take. Until now he and Erik have been very shy.
Click on the picture do watch a q-time of both angles at the same time. (Please wait until the movie is loaded. It can take some time).