Drama Project – Filming

     Our location was an old people’s home that had a whole floor of empty rooms. Once we saw the room, we knew using one of the rooms would instantly create the world we want the character in. It was very important we got a good room to shoot in as the room is a character in itself. The only problem was that we needed a desk for a scene but luckily Louise had a hold up one she lent us to use.

 

     We finally put up posters and added little decretive items like plants, bedside table light, books, and framed pictures of Jonathan, all to give the impression that the room looked homely and lived in but we also wanted the remained feel that this room was a mess just as he is so therefore we messed it up by bringing lots of rubbish in from our own flats.




     On the first day of shooting, the morning was spent with me, Sarah and Louise preparing the room and setting up all the equipment as Oliver, Rose, Hannah and Johnathan shot the scenes of Johnathan outside, in a woodland area, close by.

     We then continued to shoot the second half of the script as Johnathan had a beard that was for the second half but not the first. Therefore the next day of shooting he was clean shaven. Johnathan was very understanding and basically just went with the flow by going along with full help on what Oliver and Rose asked of him. He was very cooperative and I could see that Oliver had made a connection with him, from the shoot at the woods, which was good to see as oliver was the director.

     Since I was sound editor and Sarah was editor, this meant we would help a lot on the technical side of the shoot as for example we basically did all the lighting work for the whole shoot by place the main lamp around the room and holding the reflector to get the best of our shots, sound wise. With these constant lights in such a small room it meant we would have regular short breaks so that we did not get too tired from the heat. It came to our advantage as this meant we had time to quickly move the equipment around with Johnathan out of the room and for Oliver to keep communicating with the actor to get the footage we desired. This made the entire shoot run more smoothly through the two days.

     I felt that the shoot went great all together and to see Johnathan actor was quite overwhelming as I couldn’t believe we managed to work with him. He was very patient with us as well which was good as we are only students. I helped as much as I could with the shoot by doing a lot of lighting work. This led to the sunlight through the window becoming my enemy of course but some shots I felt look interesting with the exposure. I have recorded a lot of sound in the past and therefore offered by help to Hannah whenever she wanted it but she knew what she was doing and did a good job on her own. The only problem she faced was that the zoom kept going through batteries after every couple of takes which was strange. I though Oliver did an amazing job as a director since it was his first time directing like that and I thought Rose came out with some amazing and quite inventive shots I instantly looked forward to editing sound with in port-production.