Wednesday 9th March 2011.
Present: Myself, Matty, Josh, Holly.
Today we used our two hours of lesson time to film the internals shots that are featured at the beginning of our film. The set up for the fore-mentioned internal shots are Sophie standing against a black curtain.
For this we had intended to use the schools drama studio but due to some administrative errors we had to relocate to another location. This posed a few problems as there is only one other set with a black curtain that we are able to access, the schools theatre. This change meant we had to alter our original lighting plan to fit on the stage. While we were altering the lights and setting up the camera equipment on the stage we were struck by a thunderbolt moment. We changed our original idea of having her standing in some unknown area against the black curtain and decided that Sophie would be performing on stage in front of an empty auditorium, showing her madness by making her scream at the end of the shot. This in turn made us think of an intresting graphic match we could encorperate into our film to take us from the stage, to the action packed night scene. Apart from this we came across a couple of problems with the tracking dolly. This came in the form of trying to match the speed at which the curtains opened to the speed at which the tracking dolly would track backwards. After a number of re-takes we managed to get it right and as well as this, possibly made it better. Holly and Matty shook the tracking dolly as it tracked back to add effect to Sophie's scream. We did this to show how powerful the scream was and to shake the audience in their seats so they really feel this power.
