Bisma was just the last to leave my house after today's shooting - which I think went really well!!! I'm so excited but sooo scared!! So I have the TV on really loudly and I'm watching CSI: New York and I'll just pretend I don't hear any strange noises. (My mum & dad are went to Bristol today - hopefully they should be back soon.)
I'm really wishing that we decided on doing a RomCom or something instead of a horror/thriller, only because the atmosphere is so creepy!! My heart's going at about a million beats per minute. Only a slight exaggeration. When Bhavika, Bisma and I were sitting in a group earlier to discuss ideas, I was sitting away from the other two, and Bisma suddenly pointed behind me and screamed really convincingly!!!! Which made me and Bhavika scream too. Anyway. That was enough to set the mood... you don't even wanna know what happened when Mary arrived and knocked on the door.
ANYWAY, moving on. The actual shoot. We spent some time writing down exactly what our shots were - basically a shooting script, which then made it a lot easier, and now we know exactly what we're doing it's a whole lot easier and more efficient. We were also a bit unsure about a few things but we've sorted them out now and we have some dialogue that should fit in nicely. Yay! We got some good footage [I think] as well and we sorted out the mise-en-scène for the dressing table, which was all we needed for today.
Things that I learned today:
1) Strange sounds normally have a perfectly reasonable explanation - that freaky clicking/ticking noise that could only be heard in the headphones and on playback turned out to be the camera zoom, not a Doctor Who style clockwork android.
2) Continuity can make things a bit boring for the actor - it was a bit annoying having to stay in the same position and being unable to watch back footage - but worth it!
3) Shooting scripts really really are amazing.
4) It's a lot harder than one might think to get a knife to flash menacingly - seriously, it just wasn't shining.
5) Props need to be more organised - we had everything we needed today, but it would've been good to have the shoes, and we really should've got some red lipstick...
What we still need to do:
- the putting on the heels shot
- picking up the knife?
- the housemate walking into the room & having a few lines of dialogue with her
- the radio/song - and we need to work out a proper script for the radio news thing, and get the song
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