Our shooting day took place on a friday and was very stressful to start with already as we had the thought of limited time compared to others because of the morning talk and also the cutting the day shorter. So we all had this constant reminder of how limited for time we were, dispite knowing that we shouldn't be.
In addition to this I discovered that a team mate hadn't organised the trailer and its location so I then spent some time trying to sort this out. So I think this issue having started at the begining of the day already worried some of us, however we had to overcome this to continue with our other work.
The night before our shoot day myself and two others spent a couple of hours setting up our shoot set which involoved us creating a medical tent in one of our media rooms. We did this by assembling some very large theatre display sheets and some light holders. Becasue of the size of these sheets it meant that they were incredibly heavy and difficult to work with, especially as it kept making the light holders tip over. To solve this problelm we placed weights on the bases of the light holders that thankfully stopped the set from being ruined.
In the shot you can see that there is a body lying in the room, this is our kind media teacher Phil who was more than welcome to get involoved (Thank you).
After we completed this shot and was satisfied with what we had donewe moved on to the Morgue scene shot in the studio. This was my favourite shot becasue of the dark and eeriness of the atmosphere we created.
This was done by the low key lighting in the studio and then placing a tattered sheet over the door; behind this we placed a fan which caused the sheet to flap in the wind. This affect connotes the idea that this place has been abandoned and lifeless. In this studio we then got some people to lie down and be wrapped in some sheets on the floor, originally we were going to use make-up to create some dead looking body limbs but we soon discovered that this wouldn't be necessary as it wouldn't look realistic enough. This is an issue that we should have experimented with before, which we had done on a small scale but in comparison to the larger set and scale of shots, details like this would not be recognised.
So with this scene we experimented with a variety of difficult shoots and one included was a slow motion shot; this was quite interesting as it was performed differently than I would have thought. When filming it you had to more it faster and then when you view it on the camera or the computer it would slow it down to the speed that we'd look to produce. As shown in the clip above you can see that we had the camera on a dolly which enabled us to produce a clean, steady shot. Aswell as this shot we took some close-up's and middle close-ups to be sure that we had a wide variety of shots to work with when editing.
After this we all went to Cornhill with all our equipment intending to go and shoot the scene for the trailer as this was where I was told that the trailer was to be. However when we arrivied we discovered that the trailer was not only in the wrong position (and unable to move) and also full of rubbish; so of course no shoot. Which Sucked as we were really excited to get this particular shot. So as a result we ended up with no shot and having wasted approximately an hour of precious shooting time. This whole issue was down to lack of organisation before hand, this is why itsvery important for eveyone to solve each of their own designated jobs, however now I'm sure we have all learnt from our mistakes and in the future we act upon these.
The last shot that we ended up completing was pretty stressful in itself as it involved a lot of people.
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