Account of Shoot Day (17th January)

Today, my group did our shooting and this is what the set came out like... We were so happy!

 

The day before the shoot, Thursday, 15th Jan our group (me, Chris and Laura) were away on a theatre trip so our other member, Phoebe, took control and did the set - this we give her lots of credit for. The set took her about 1/2 hours to create. For this, she glued wallpaper onto 3 flats, and after this she painted it.

Phoebe really managed to capture the idea we wanted the set to look like! The dark colours helped with the lighting as they created a shadowy look. On camera, the set looked so real it was unbelievable - this really helped with the continuity of the film making it look smooth!

I woke up on Friday morning really excited for the shoot, as having planned it for so long it was finally time to film! When I got into college that morning it was nice to see the set for this first time and I think this got me really excited to actually see the final thing.

As the shoot was in college, preparing and getting ready to film was quite easy! We simply had to grab a camera and start shooting. First of all, when we headed to the coridoor, we had to set up the camera and position where we wanted to place the 'tube light' to go to help light up certain features in the coridoor to make it look effective. Then, we awaited for Adam's arrival as he had to get changed into his costume.

Overall, the shoot went really well! We managed to film extra shots that we thought might look quite nice - however, we did not completely follow our storyboard as when we were filming, we created some shots that would make the films continuity look smoother so that the story was easier to follow.

There was only one shot that we didn't film which was the light swinging when the man walked in. This was because we were uncertain that it might break the continuity.

In total, we filmed from 9:00 am - 3:00 pm, so we managed to spend a fair amount of time getting the shots we wanted. Originally we presumed we would be finished at 1:00/2:00 pm.

We stuck to our plan of what parts/times of the day we wanted to film certain things. We filmed the coridoor scene in the downstairs coridoor in college in the morning around 9:00 am - 10:30/11:00 am. Then we went on to the set after this and filmed the 'basement' bit in the studio. We had a half an hour lunch break at 12:30 pm in between this time.

Each of us managed to have a go at filming, holding the mic, giving instructions/being director - we were constantly changing roles! I managed to film a really good bit from underneath the tripod for the camera which I was really chuffed with. Also, being director made it really easy to start understanding the concept of the order needed.

I think that look of the set was a big part of what went well in the whole process of this. It looked so good on camera and it was exactly what I hoped the set would look like! I personally think that nothing went wrong on the day - we got good shots and we got every vital shot! I enjoyed filming in the set more because it was fun and I thought I got more involved in this part. I think that Phoebe was the main filmer, especially in the coridoor scene.

I'm really excited to see the smoothness of going from the coridoor to the studio set in the editing! We filmed it well, so I can't wait to see the final image of what it looks like put together!