Day 0.4

Tuesday:

After having a light and camera rehearsal on Monday, as well as having a meeting to go over the changes made to the script, we decided to move all the equipment to the location where we`re going to do the filming on Wednesday. The locations, a cellar, a kitchen, and an outside look of a house, have all been risk assessed by Alan and we have been given permission to film. He also arranged for the transport of the group to the location.

The kitchen:

The cellar:

The house:

We split-up into two groups: Ryan, who is in charge with sound (pre-)recording and Alan have set out to capture some of the sound effects that we will be needing for the final editing, and the rest of the group (Abdul, myself, Duncan and Umar) was busy coming up with different ideas for camera/lights angles/position and help put them into practice. Lighting the kitchen has been quite a challenge, and I am still not sure if I am happy with the result (I get to much exposure on certain parts of the face), but we have marked out the places for the set-up we have tried today, so tomorrow hopefully we can start from there and come up with some last minute ideas to solve that problem. Abdul has also drawn up a floor plan. The lighting for the cellar scenes looks more promising. We have used one of the lights and had it bouncing of the wall, and made it look like its source is a lamp that is placed just near the subject. I suggested using a CTB gel, because the CTO one just seemed to soft and tangerine-like. Also, the colour treatment of the kitchen scene required something similar, I think, so as not to have too stark a contrast between the two scenes.

We have had some troubles with the actors...with the actress, to be more precise. She came down with a flu, and her presence is uncertain. Alan has come up with a back-up plan, having contacted a professional actress who might be interested. Until tomorrow though, I am afraid that`s a cliffhanger...