SHOOT 2 PREPARATION AND REFLECTION

This blog post covers:

• Behind the scenes
• Reflection

BEHIND THE SCENES
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REFLECTION

• We arrived at the location (Emma's house)
• One cast member arrived late, however we set up the mise-en-scene while we were waiting for him
• The first scene we shot was in the hallway, with James as the director (and on the camera), Louis on lighting and Tristan being in the scene
• While James and I were filming this scene, Emma was performing the zombie make-up on her father
• This scene took us around 45 minutes to film
• When we had completed this scene and Emma had completed the make-up, we took the car over to our next filming location, to film the outside scene
• After around 30-40 minutes of filming outside, we return to the first filming location (Emma's house) to film the kitchen scene
• As this scene is intended to be snappy, it took us 20 minutes to film this scene
• In total, we spent about 3 hours filming
• James (Bright Films) and Tristan (Polyhedron Productions) were filming/directing this shoot. This is because James was absent for our first shoot day and with Tristan being the protagonist, it meant it was challenging for him to film any shots

THINGS THAT WENT WELL:

• Good cooperation and efficiency - as one of our group members was late, it meant we were short of time. We worked around that and managed to film each scene faster
• We did it in an appropriate order which made our lives easier
• We got a large variety of shot types and angles
• The zombie makeup looked very good and we managed to improvise around the issue of cast pulling out. Previous to the plan to have Emma's father as the zombie, we had planned to use Tristan's brother. As he was unable to come, we improvised well and got the scene done.
• We managed to complete all scenes, meaning we didn't have to meet up to film again 
• We communicated with the cast well, directing them efficiently and effectively

THINGS THAT DIDN'T GO WELL:

• Took slightly longer to set up the hallway scene (as there were many things we needed to remove from the room)
• Many people were walking past our outside filming, meaning we had to pause and wait for them to pause
• Although we had prepared for bad weather, it still meant we had to work as fast as possible (especially with the zombie having a full face of makeup)