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Second Unit shooting Kate inspects the flora Matt sets up his mini tent Jonnie's cut legs

1.45pm

I've been shooting all the stuff for Scene 1. Nature shots. Light reflected on tree trunks reflected. Flowers. bushes, holy, ivy, acorns falling into the lake, reflections etc. It has all been very idyllic. Beautiful. It's been nice to shoot with just the camera crew, coming up with shots on the fly. Roger has found some beautiful ones.

Now we are on the top of a hill overlooking the lake. We are shooting some wides before lunch. I think we are a little behind but hopefully we will catch up. Later we do Callum running naked through forest. My wounds are up thanks to a number of thorns on the way up here!

In addition to scene one, I am also shooting a few inserts that I need for various scenes, 106A, 122 etc. We used to have a whole day for this but I added it to today when I got ahead and trimmed a day out of the shooting schedule.

Jonnie just texted me to say that the mushrooms I ate could be fatal. There are three types of purple mushrooms. One is edible, one causes illness and the other is fatal. The problem is I ate two of them of possibly different types. That's a poor draw. Worse than drawing against a flush and straight possibility.

4.17pm

Been walking through the forest shooting little shots of it. Beautiful backlit ones of branches, trees, streams glistening etc. It's nice and peaceful. Still I have to shoot Callum running though. My only frustration is getting the steadicam in here. I have been waiting for it on set since I ordered it at 1pm. Ridiculous.

5.02pm

Now the steadicam has problems with its transmitter. Jesus! Anyway, luckily today is a light day doing inserts, pickups and nature shots for scene 1. Roger suggested a shot where we zoom out from a tree to see a beautiful dense forest. It looked very powerful. It could even be the first shot if we edit it that way.

5.15pm

Now shooting without transmitter with fixed focus shot gliding through the forest looking through the trees and seeing the sun bursting through. I will also shoot a twirling shot that should work well. Afterwards I will shoot a shot looking up at trees. A POV of Callum and Malika to either use as a bridge between scenes or as the first shot of 113.

It seems now that I ate two mushrooms of the type of which they make you ill but don't kill you. It's the stems that are poisonous and not the heads.

7.07pm

The Brazilian GP is probably on lap 52 now. I didn't see it. I am desperate that no-one tells me the result. I will watch the replay later. Please God let Lewis win tonight!

In the end I decided not to shoot scene1A today. I had to shoot the forest it seems. Rather than do a rush job on two scenes, I decided I let the forest star today and did one well. I have shot Callum and Malika for 13 days here. It was time for the other character in the film to come to life. The light was beautiful. So many shots stick in the mind. The zoom out of the trees. I repeated that shot later. Reflections in the lake. Ripples on trees. Pine cones up against the sky. Amazing stuff. Hopefully the stuff that will make the film stand out.

At least I shot all the inserts and the Hoody scene. As well as all the pickups etc. I had the hoody jump into shot as well as doing crash zooms, speed changes and turning the camera on and off.

One headache I have had to deal with is that the laboratory it seems have destroyed some of the negative. 35 feet. It looks like takes 1 to 3 of a shot that I did 4 takes on. It seems I might have to redo that shot again. Maybe on Wednesday morning just before we leave. This has happened to me before. The worst time was most of the Irish sequence to Boston Kickout that had to be reshot. Terrible. The worst thing is that it took the lab over a week to tell us about it. Disgusting is the word I'd use for that.

Steve Norris The lake of no return Dougal 'The Hoody' returns Matt King