Day of shoot

We did our shoot today. Luckily we got all the footage we needed and it didn't rain! I met the crew at 12:30 at the meeting point I had arranged. I then organised that I would drive into the airport as it was better for safety reasons to only take one car, and also for the reason that parking is paid so no need for everyone to pay for parking. I pulled in at the first spot (the welcome sign at entrance to airport area).
We took a few shots there of an empty car park and the welcome sign, I feel like this spot is really in keeping with the theme of the piece 'Desolation at Shannon Airport'). I then drove the crew to the car park of the airport. We then walked Mark's camera gear up to get the next two shots, a pan of the estuary and a shot of the tail wing of an aircraft, which stands near entrance to car park.
From there we moved indoors, the first thing I did was make myself and the crew known to airport security. The man on security made a phone call to my contact in the airport to confirm that he was expecting us and then we were good to go.
We took various shots of the empty halls, escalator, statue and empty check-in desks. I feel that the piece will have a nod to emigration in Ireland as there are symbols of this dotted around the airport. Our contact who works in the airport then came out to say hello and we chatted with him for a bit. He suggested that we head up to the viewing area.
There, we got a great view of the runway and it's surrounds. Luckily, there was a plane on the runway which we managed to get a shot of. We got a shot of the empty viewing area, the car park and a shot of the exterior of the building before heading back to L.I.T. We uploaded the content to Mairead's machine and I copied a version onto my hard drive as back up. All-in-all I would say it was a successful day of work, we were on the shoot for 3 hours and we have plenty of footage for our piece.