Filming: Day 1

07/03/2012
Day 1 of shooting and we start early prepping for a morning of shooting. today we begin on focusing on our first part of the script which is introducing our characters to the audience. We begin to set up the set and make sure everything is in the right place to start filming.


So we started doing a variety of shots whilst the actors delivered their lines. We got a few close ups and extreme close ups of Ben's face close up and followed the rules of the Eye Match Shot. I then found a step ladder and took a few aerial shots of the interrogation table. After we got a sufficient amount of footage of Ben talking at Jono, we then had to do the reverse/reaction shots of Jono. We didn't want to cause any mistakes and break the 180 degree rule, so we carefully swapped the set around without moving the camera so we didn't break any lines.


The first half an hour was quite calmly taken but we ended up having a few disagreements half way on how we should shoot certain things at certain points. But in the end we all came together and compromised what shots we are going to use and it took us to the end of the session. Another problem we faced was smoking, we first was going to use the smoke machine to give the impression of people smoking, but we ended up lighting cigarettes for short periods of time and then stubbing them out (the owner of the studio granted us permission to use real cigarettes aslong as we were mature and didn't abuse his words). After we had got substantial footage, we then took it to the computers and reviewed what we had done. Ben then had his first go at editing the first 45 seconds together and we had completed page one of our script.