We met at Nicola’s today to begin filming the opening scene of our film. As we had already had a practice shoot of this scene, I already had quite a good idea of what shots I wanted to get. This sped the process up a little.
We then filmed the PE scene, which was one of the funniest things I’ve had to film – Josh in tight shorts and a sweat band on a muddy wet field! We used a still shot of the field and directed Josh to enter the frame and pause when he gets to the centre. The idea in this scene is that he is shouting at the class to keep running and tells them that he’ll catch up, but the audience can see that he can barely breath! Josh played this really well.
Next we filmed the pub scene. This scene involves Josh having a pint with a friend (played by Sam) and then leaving as he is not himself – he is thinking about Nicole. We used shot reverse shots during the conversation between Jack and his friend and mid shots of the pair talking. Although some of these shots were ok, if we have time I would like to go back to the pub and get some better footage – we were rushing as we were almost out of time.
Finally we filmed the sex scene. Possibly the most awkward time of my life. I played the girl who Jack was having unprotected sex with as we couldn’t get anybody else to do it. Therefore Sam took over camera. It made me cringe having to straddle Josh on the back seat of my car!! SO wrong! We agreed that Josh would PRETEND to kiss my neck as I drank out of a bottle of vodka (which was actually water). It was very difficult to get shots in such a small space, Sam just sat on the front seat and got a still shot of us from there. I like how we disappeared out of shot, leaving it to the imagination of the audience – it meant we didn’t have to actually act it any further too! Another shot which Sam got was from outside the car whilst Josh was shaking it. I think this will look really funny. I think that we definitely need to shoot this scene again and plan some more shots. I quite like the idea of the camera looking through the window of the car over the shoulder of me or Josh. We used this shot in a previous project, check it out at the link below (shot example at 1 minute 30 seconds):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IBaxuGlpYw
Mark had a few technical difficulties with the sound at first today – I’m not sure exactly what the problem was so I’ll leave it to Mark to explain, but I think that he had to use the Marantz to record all of the sounds rather than connecting the boom to the camera. This isn’t great as it means that he will have to synch the sound to the moving image in post-production, which will obviously take up a lot of time that we don’t necessarily have. Despite these technical difficulties, Mark got on with his job without complaining.
Again Sam brought all of our props – clothes, shirt and tie, shorts, sweatband, shaving foam, razor, etc. Sam’s really reliable with bringing the props, he always makes sure we have everything we need and if we realise that we need something at the last minute he’ll walk wherever necessary to get it. He’s great!
Josh got in to character and played it well – when he did what he was told! Ha. I think that because Nicola and Josh have so much banter, it is difficult for Josh to have Nicola directing him. We therefore spend quite a lot of time waiting to get on with the scene.
Nicola’s doing a good job at directing, keeping us all motivated throughout the day. I think what Nicola tries to do is work WITH us rather than telling us what to do. For the group members that co-operate with her this works really well, but it makes it easy for others to take advantage of this and therefore the job doesn’t get done – or takes ten times longer. My advice to Nicola would be to work with us and be a little more relaxed with us while ever we’re all co-operating and working as a team, but as soon as anybody starts to slack take control! I know you don’t want to control us, but if we’re not listening when you’re been nice who cares!
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