The 4th Shoot

Thank You - Fallen Grace House Party Rushes from Emma Taylor on Vimeo.

I edited a short compilation clip of the house party scenes and put them into the clip shown above. I then showed this to the actors who helped us make this film, as they have been working on this with us for months and haven't seen any result of their work yet. So this was a thank you clip to them, and also shows the scenes we shot at the house party. --

Written by Emma Taylor

This was our last 'big' shoot for the production of our trailer, due to the amount of actors needed to make the scene lively. As it was a house party, we needed food, drinks, a large amount of people and a place to film, luckily Abi let us use her flat for the night. Whilst we needed the flat, we also needed a location outside for the kidnapping of Grace to take place. Whilst this could have taken place in another location and cheat the shot to make it look like outside the building, there underground parking bays underneath the flats which were both convenient and cinematic to shoot in. In total we had our 3 main characters, the kidnapper (teacher) and 15 extras who kindly helped us out with the shoot, to make the party look busy. We budgeted to buy props for decorations (party poppers and tinsel) and also refreshments for our actors. I decided to do this as I believe that the story is told in the attention to detail, and so preparation was key. The use of party poppers for decoration allowed us to make innovaitve and creative shots, allowing us to experiment with our film making skills.

Setting up shots to film

I continued my role as 'director' following the shot list we designed for this shoot, did camerawork and took control of the progression of the shoot. Tom Bailey and Abi Ford both did camera work both inside and outside the party, and swapping over to perform clapper board duties, so I could dub sound and sync up the sound to the images in the edit. Saqib had a busy job recording sound on the project, which was difficult with so many people. 

props

behind the camera shot

This is a shot from behind the camera looking onto the action taking place. If you look closely onto the camera screen you can see some tap covering the top and bottom half of the screen. This is so we can correctly compose the shots, and no heads are cut off when I add the black cropping bars in the edit (to create a cinematic effect of having an anamorphic lens). 

Saqib doing sound

Tom and I composing shots

Tom composing shots