MICRODRAMA: THE SHOOT

MICRODRAMA: THE SHOOT

We did the shoot at Ben Brearley's house to film our Micro Drama. A house that could be potentially scary as you can make it scary by using different lighting etc. We then arranged to meet by social networking, which instantly created a problem as people didn't know when we were meeting up because they hadn't ready it.

Suitcase Scene which proved difficult

 We encountered many problems while shooting. One of the problems was when shooting the first scene when the 'Lads' are taking the suitcases into the house. We wanted to get the sound of the suitcases into the take. However with the sound of the cars that was pretty hard. So we had to wait for the cars to come passed, delaying our schedule. Another problem was, we were in someones house, so things like family photos and things that weren't scary had to be hidden.



As Danny Cohen said in the York film festival 'natural light is a cinematographers best friend', this was not the case sometimes in our shooting process! Alot of the time it was too dark to see anything on the camera. so with some intelligence we used a phone light to help film. We originally were going to do a few scenes outside, however the weather wasn't good enough at all. We couldn't film anything outside because of the resources we had. This changed our original story and had to use our creative minds to compensate, changing some of the murder scenes.

For our shooting as i was the killer i filmed the start of the film until George gets killed. Then i handed over to George to do the filming. So me and him were the directors, choosing which shots to partake in. Then we chose the order in which the people get killed, choosing who would be the best person for each murder scene. There were 5 'lads' (Dom, George, Curtis, Ben, Dec and one killer, me)

What was impressive about our shoot was that we had NO script and not much planning, which we now know we need to thing about in our next project. We did incredibly well making it up from the top of our heads, however it could have been so much better if we had planned i thoroughly!

The lesson i have learnt is that what we needed to do was plan in advance! this would make the process so much easier. However with very little planning we produced quite a fine specimen.