Production Day 2

In terms of the final location for our warehouse, this changed because unfortunately we failed to get a reply from Shurguard. However this definitely worked in our favour because my group member Zach managed to arrange the new location in a car warehouse, which certainly helped boost the production value, the expensive cars made it seem a lot more professional. It also tied in with our story which we altered slightly in light of our location. The bully is from a very wealthy family and he posts on facebook a picture of his new car. Sean sees this as a way to lure him in to a trap so he goes over to the warehouse and threatens to damage the car. The climax takes place from here.

Regarding the filming on the day, we arrived at 10am and began to set up our scene, following close attention to the storyboard which another group member had drawn. Although we brought lighting along, we felt it wasn't that necessary. However in hindsight we thought it would have been a good idea to have turned off all the lights and just used the redhead. We filmed a variety of different shots in order to create a suspenseful ending to our opening, e.g. establishing shot, over-the-shoulder, longshot, POV etc.

My favourite shot in the film is the last one which I worked on, which is in the clip below. We tried using the dolly but unfortunately we couldn't get it low enough on the ground. Instead, we used our initiative and found a skateboard lying around and we used that to create our smooth tracking shot at the end.

Once we had recorded all the primary shots, we then filmed some extras with the time we had left. For example we asked the manager of the warehouse if we could film inside one of the Aston Martins which he happily agreed to. We even filmed an alternate ending and will decided which one to use when we begin editing in the coming days.