DAY TWO, UP THE HILL AGAIN!!! Today we moved hard and fast, evewryone pulled double their weight and performed excellently considering we had very minimal sleep and an early start. We started with the hill scene, all the lighting had changed so we had to film the whole thing again. Everything moved three times the speed of the previous day, so we managed to get this shot done and out of the way. By the time we were done it was lunch time, so we went to the waterfall to eat lunch.
Once there we filmed the next scene in record time, it didn’t take long as it wasn’t a scene that had any talking. everything went well because everyone knew how much we had to get done and how short a time span we had to do it in. Through the filming me and rob marshal started numbering the shots on the shot list, so we both knew exactly what order we had to get them in as it would save us switching from tripod to shoulder rig all the time and speed up production. We managed to get everything done by about 7pm… but we still had a night shoot to do. Throughout the shoot I communicated with the actor on parts she didn’t understand and helped direct her character a bit more, i believe in letting the actor develop the character themselves though, as they are the ones really embodying them and creating them. In the end, they know more about the character than you yourself. Everyone was feeling happy, but exhausted, so we decided to go to the pub down the road and fill up on food while we waited for it to get dark. Once it got dark, we started the night shoot.
The first shot was just a transition shot, so it was pretty simple to do and limited directing was needed. We then moved onto the fire scene, trekking though the pitch black dark forest at night with an LED light to light the way, it was pretty spooky. After finally arriving at the spot, rob smith the god of fire constructed a flamethrower from the ground, or at least that’s what it sounded like. Everyone was in a good mood because we knew it was the last shot, the actor wanted to get off and kept complaining but we got there in the end. If I was further in my game and not a student I would have said something, but at this stage, as a student, I didn’t want to burn bridges.
We got done at 12am after a very long day beginning at 6am. We got a HELL of a lot done for one day and tomorrow all we had to film due in the day was two scenes and at night the stasis module scene. plenty of time. right?…
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