Production - Shoot Diary 26th November 2014
Before this shoot we had established that our actor, Miranda Markham, would get a lift to the shooting location, so we could all stay in school setting up our location. We had to film during the school day because our location, a cleaning store cupboard, would be unavailable after school had finished as cleaners would need access to it. Only Rebecca had met Miranda before, so we had decided to film scenes with only her as she is a main character who we needed to film with again and therefore familiarise ourselves with her. Whilst we were waiting for our actor to arrive we set up our filming location. First, the cleaners removed any equipment they could store anywhere else from the cupboard, and we put all harmful cleaning chemicals to the side so neither the crew nor our actor could knock them over. After this, we placed our props in the location, putting our old photo on the door, and books on a shelf inside the cupboard.
Our actor arrived in costume, so we could start filming immediately after she arrived. The biggest challenge we faced when filming was working in a small space which could not accommodate all four of us. It was a struggle to fit our actor, someone operating a camera, and someone holding the lighting into this small space, but we managed to get all the footage we needed. Lighting was another issue; whilst we wanted the scene we were filming to have low key lighting, the cupboard was too dark with no lighting and too bright with the lights turned on. We had to improvise lighting by using the torch function on Rebecca's phone, but achieved a level of lighting that we were happy with, one which will fit the conventions of lighting in the horror genre.
Overall, we were happy with what we had filmed on this shoot, and did not have much we wanted to improve. The flour we used to resemble dust on the books that our actor picks up did not show up on camera, so putting it on the books was an inefficient use of our time, and if we were to do this shoot again we would probably not use the flour.
Behind the scenes footage of our shoot:
North Chamber: Store Cupboard BTS from Sam Duxbury on Vimeo.
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