Animatic

Locations

Due to the “intimacy” of the film e.g. waking up in a bed and raiding the cupboards for a bowl of cereal it was hard to find a location where the residents of the house were willing to let us film. The ideal location for our film was a big house in a nice looking estate, preferably a cul de sac. The place I had in mind was my gran and grandad’s house. They live in a nice area and have a nice, big, tidy house, the kind of house a scientist would live in. However, our actor said he would find it hard to act in a total strangers house so we collectively decided the best option was to film at my house however I would have to make some changes to the house before the filming began. One change was to move all my mums clothes out of the way. My mum and dads room is relatively untidy and my mum leaves her clothes around the house so I needed to clear them out of the way as a scientist wouldn’t have womens clothes in the house. Also, I had to lock my dogs in the spare bedroom and clear away all the stuff lying around on the floor where we were shooting so we had room for the tripod etc. Also, by my house there is a set of derelict flats which was a really good place for the “sniper” point of view shot. All in all, although my house wasn’t the place I originally had in mind but it still worked out fine.

Creating Fake Blood

Preliminary Exercise

Filming Diary

Overall filming of the sequence went well taking roughly 3 hours with a break one main gripe being the tripod being unstable for some shots that may need to be refilmed dependant on how they look after editing. There was also an issue with the alarm clock not working for the sequence which looked unnoticeable on the camera but at the start of the cut it is obvious so this will have to be refilmed for the final cut.
(Alex Taylor)

Wesley put extra padding under his clothing to help make his death look more realistic as there was no space with the long shot we used to hide a fall mat.


Wesley adding Ben's fake blood to the labcoat.


Nicole did most of the camerawork, as director we spent about 2 minutes for each shot sorting the shot type/angle/exposure etc, before actually filming.

Script

As a group we decided a script for our opening scene would not be required as in this introductory scene we only see charaters on their own and we believe adding much dialogue would be detrimental and wouldn't fit the scene. One line is spoken by "the hitman" at the end of the scene on the phone to his employers explaining his work is done. This will be added in during editing as the microphone would not give a clear enough sound in the rain in which it was recorded.

Shooting Schedule