17 Feb 2014

Shooting On Location Day 3

On the final day of planned filming, reflection Studios got the footage for the rest of the film including the scene where Crimson receives the phone call from Luke and the part where Luke enters Crimson's room after his threatening call. These scenes differ and so different elements of these clips needed to be changed adding or taking away light etc. 

Before even starting to film, we had to dress the room up so that it looked more like a girls room rather than the social room it is usually used for. 

The tracking dolly shot was filmed first where we zoom in on Crimson as she is playing with her dolls etc. The tracking dolly was later used again to film the follow shot as Luke enters Crimson's room to meet his doom. These shots took quite a few takes as the camera was either moving too fast so out cut off the actors head or was too slow so the actor went walking off without us being able to catch them in the frame. 

Next up was the close up of the phone and the response Crimson gives when she hears what Luke has to say.  This was them followed by the shots of Crimson putting the phone down and a match on action shot of the bear being grabbed and thrown on the floor. 

We then moved on to filming the scene where Luke enters the room and discovers the hidden truth about Crimson followed by the shot where by Crimson enters with the hockey stick from the beginning of the Thriller opening and swings to hit Luke on the head. This also took a few takes as we needed to ensure that each camera angle matches the previous as many of the shots were MOA shot. 

Finally we filmed the scene where Luke enters Crimson's house and walks up the stairs to 'meet his doom'. This was also going to be MOA and so the actor was made to repeat his actions to ensure that the shots would match up when they were all edited together.



So thats the end of filming, now its time to get editing process. This includes the music, titles and the actual camera footage.