Shoot 2

Written by Emma Taylor


For this shoot, I organised to film in the cellar of my father's office building where we could look place lights to make the area look grungy and cinematic.

Pre-Shoot

The equipment list was certainly not as extensive as on the former shoot as we didn't need external sound equipment so sync up, or my dolly to do tracking shots as we were in a small room.

The Equipment List

Camera

SD cards

Batteries

Tripod

Back light

fill light

I did a quick visit to the location prior to the shoot to check out what would be possible on the day of filming. I looked at two possible basement layouts and decided that the latter would be more in keeping with our plan of the mis-en-scene. 

The following photos are from the location scouting.

stairs down to the basement

basement 1

basement 2

During Shoot

I thought the shoot went really well. We worked efficiently and effectively within the time restraints we had and got all the shots we needed for our trailer and I also took some photographs for the poster design whilst Clare was made up with make up. There were no issues that arose, we just had to be careful of wires leading to the lights for safety reasons.

Make-up

The make-up for Clare took approximately around an hour to complete, to make it look as real as possible. I got some pictures of the kind of make-up I would like Clare to have. These images are below.

Make -up Image 1

Make-up Image 2

Make-up Image 3

Post shoot

Since it was only a short shoot (the setting up actually took the longest to do) I edited the second set of graded rushes for these clips. I colour graded the rushes (clips) to have a blue tint, to make the images look cold and uninviting.