I'm happy to say that the Churchyard shoot went very well particularly considering it was quite windy on the day.
I was fortunate to get two capable older actors to play the roles I was looking for in my film.
I was really happy as I feel I was able to get some good coverage with Jeff as he didn't mind appearing in as many takes as were necessary. Dorothy was unfortunately feeling quite frail on the day of the shoot and couldn't stay too long whilst filming in the churchyard so I needed to film her scenes with Jeff first. Luckily I was able to get all the camera shots I needed and since 90% of the film is based around Jeff alone anyway, this wasn't a huge problem. I was very lucky getting the chance to film at St. James's church because it was a wide open space where I could get exactly the type of shots I had been visualising in my head. It was also empty so there was no one around to cause any delays with the shooting. So I would like to give special thanks to the priest John Armstrong for allowing this to happen.
There are a few points looking back where I wish I could have stabilised the camera tripod a bit more but it was unfortunately quite windy (and cold) when we were filming the outdoor scenes which meant that I just needed to make sure I got all the camera angles I needed.
Overall I would consider it successful shoot as I got everything that I set out to do and my actors understood what it was I wanted from them.
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