How The shoot day was meant to run:
Night before: Set up the minimalistic black set with Holly's rope swing.
Morning: Shoot the band (Holly, Will and Otto)
Lunch Time: Set up lighting and set in the woods
Afternoon: Go down to the woods with the rest of the cast and shoot the wood's scene
BUT!...
The night before it rained! The reason we could not set up the woods scene the night before was incase it rained, hence why we would do it on the day.
However, the ground was far to wet so we just could not set up of shoot down there.
Luckily the night before i had gone to dress the set with this in mind so instead of making the set minimalistic, we raided the set and probs storgae room and designed a sort of scrap heap with tiers, chains and fake sheets of corrogated iron that was left over one of last years thrillers, just incase we didnt get a chance to rescedule the woods scene.
We went ahead with the preformance shots which went really well (described in more detail bellow) but by this point, we had told our wooods cast that the shoot was off and we were going to rescedule.
We finished the majority of preformance by 1pm and just as a precaution decided to improvise a woods scene in the studio incease we didnt get to shoot outside.
Mikey then went on a mad scramble around the school dragging anyone in free period to the studio, Kindly Jason, a media teacher, let us have his class which pretty much saved the day! Daisy and Joe then set up a make-shift dressing room and started to dress the new found cast, filling them in on the basic storyline- bearing in mind that at this point, not even we really knew what we were doing. Baisicly, we told them to be 'creepy' and 'demonic'. For such little infomation i think that the cast worked really really well.
Meanwhile I finished up the last of the preformance shots to release our DJ and basist and talked to matt and luke about what sorts of things we could film with this lastminute.com cast.
We improvised a scene where the animal people stood in a circle, I stood in the middle with Luke holding the camera (hand held to get a shaky shot) and stayed behind him as he spun around experimenting with shooting high angle and low angle either holding the camera above them of kneeling, even lying, on the floor- shooting from Abby's (The victimised 'innocent') perspective. After Luke had demonstrated this I suggested we did the same shot but with Abby in the middle. I shot alone this time shouting directions as I filmed. Every time I stopped on a characters face they would lunge at me, when I got onto the floor I shouted for them to begin climbing over the camera. In the Shots with Abby in the circle I would come in and out of the group shooting from the perspective of one of the animal people.
We then had the idea to incorporate Holly into the shots again. Holly and I got inside the genie lift and it was raised to about 15-20 feet. Holly then lay on her bak with her head overhanging the edge. She held the rope that she had previously been swinging on and i stood over her shooting down wards so it looked like the camera was above her whilst the climber up the rope. We did one shot of this with her singing the track then repeated the shot but with Abby in the circle of animal people on the floor below.
Just before we let everyone go, we shot all of the animal people tangled on the ground with one standing up in the middle in a flexible back-bend. Although this shot followed no real logic narrative wise, it provided a good opportunity for screen- grabs to be used in our DigiPack.
Night before: Set up the minimalistic black set with Holly's rope swing.
Morning: Shoot the band (Holly, Will and Otto)
Lunch Time: Set up lighting and set in the woods
Afternoon: Go down to the woods with the rest of the cast and shoot the wood's scene
BUT!...
The night before it rained! The reason we could not set up the woods scene the night before was incase it rained, hence why we would do it on the day.
However, the ground was far to wet so we just could not set up of shoot down there.
Luckily the night before i had gone to dress the set with this in mind so instead of making the set minimalistic, we raided the set and probs storgae room and designed a sort of scrap heap with tiers, chains and fake sheets of corrogated iron that was left over one of last years thrillers, just incase we didnt get a chance to rescedule the woods scene.
We went ahead with the preformance shots which went really well (described in more detail bellow) but by this point, we had told our wooods cast that the shoot was off and we were going to rescedule.
We finished the majority of preformance by 1pm and just as a precaution decided to improvise a woods scene in the studio incease we didnt get to shoot outside.
Mikey then went on a mad scramble around the school dragging anyone in free period to the studio, Kindly Jason, a media teacher, let us have his class which pretty much saved the day! Daisy and Joe then set up a make-shift dressing room and started to dress the new found cast, filling them in on the basic storyline- bearing in mind that at this point, not even we really knew what we were doing. Baisicly, we told them to be 'creepy' and 'demonic'. For such little infomation i think that the cast worked really really well.
Meanwhile I finished up the last of the preformance shots to release our DJ and basist and talked to matt and luke about what sorts of things we could film with this lastminute.com cast.
We improvised a scene where the animal people stood in a circle, I stood in the middle with Luke holding the camera (hand held to get a shaky shot) and stayed behind him as he spun around experimenting with shooting high angle and low angle either holding the camera above them of kneeling, even lying, on the floor- shooting from Abby's (The victimised 'innocent') perspective. After Luke had demonstrated this I suggested we did the same shot but with Abby in the middle. I shot alone this time shouting directions as I filmed. Every time I stopped on a characters face they would lunge at me, when I got onto the floor I shouted for them to begin climbing over the camera. In the Shots with Abby in the circle I would come in and out of the group shooting from the perspective of one of the animal people.
We then had the idea to incorporate Holly into the shots again. Holly and I got inside the genie lift and it was raised to about 15-20 feet. Holly then lay on her bak with her head overhanging the edge. She held the rope that she had previously been swinging on and i stood over her shooting down wards so it looked like the camera was above her whilst the climber up the rope. We did one shot of this with her singing the track then repeated the shot but with Abby in the circle of animal people on the floor below.
Just before we let everyone go, we shot all of the animal people tangled on the ground with one standing up in the middle in a flexible back-bend. Although this shot followed no real logic narrative wise, it provided a good opportunity for screen- grabs to be used in our DigiPack.
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