Third Day Of Shooting Narrative

So this evening, we shot part of the footage within the bedroom with just Orrin as Laura was unavailable on that day. This meant that we had to shoot all of  our shots without her in order to make the most out of our time. Fortunately, a lot of our shots involve Orrin showing his addiction which worked well in our favour, leaving only a few more scenes to do with Laura.

The shots which we captured were mainly of him lying on his bed and looking extremely depressed with his addiction. To show this, we used the fixed lens to get the highest quality close-up shots, allowing us to really focus on his face so that his emotions are extremely clear which we had lacked in our rough cut.

For the most part, we used the heavy tripod as it gives us stable shots whilst allowing us to film panning shots steadily. The exception of this was when we used to shoulder mounts to film shots which needed to be filmed with a moving camera. 

In general, today's shooting went extremely well and has put us in the position where in terms of the bedroom scene, we just need to film the shots with Laura in it. This we intend to film on Saturday as well as all of our outdoor shots in Newcastle.

 

Here are a few images we took whilst we were filming.

This was the behind the scenes of one of the killer shots in our video. This shot is an over the shoulder shot that starts focussed on the back of Orrin's head, and then the focus is changed to reveal Orrin looking at himself in a smashed mirror. We originally had this shot in a normal, not smashed mirror in our rough cut, however we think that the broken mirror comes with more visual signifiers in order to link in with the theory by Ferdinand de Saussure. We feel the broken mirror reflects a broken man and a broken personality which fits in really well with our narrative.

 

Here you can see we attached an LED light to the top of the camera so that we could easily adjust the light and also point it directly at the area or person we were shooting at the time. This made lighting much easier and was also 1 less light for someone to stand and hold.