Filming Day 3

Shooting Schedule

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Organising Actors to Schedule

Behind the Scenes

We arrived at the storage cupboard on time with the correct equipment. We were able to secure lighting of a more professional standard before we went, and found the difference this made to the overall mise-en scène was huge. 

Filming in the storage cupboard instead of the bunker was much easier. We had access to electricity and it was easier to ask our actor to film because we did not need to organise transport; we could just work in free periods during school time. 

The issue we had faced the previous week was with the actors looking in different directions as they delivered the lines, making the piece non-continuous and disorientating for the viewer. We positioned our actress and then mapped out where the other actors would be, practicing shots from different angles and working out how we would avoid making any of the same mistakes. 

Because we were only filming two shots, it took us just fifteen minutes from setting up to finishing. We were really pleased when we watched our footage back; the difference that the lighting made was amazing, and we will definitely take that into account when we re-film the second half of our bunker scenes. It gave the film a much more professional look and although the bright lighting was not typical of the horror genre, the dark and dramatic shadows it cast actually looked very sinister which we liked. We will certainly be using these shots in the final piece. 

Here is a comparison of a behind the scenes photo in the bunker, showing the quality of lighting we had to work with, and a still from the footage we recorded more recently with the better lighting.