Filming process

The first stage before filming was preparing the location, to get what we needed for the shots we had to have a chair in the middle of a dark room with a fairly concentrated light above it focusing on where the victim would be. Since there was no actual light above where the chair was we had set up a portable light, which was clipped onto the beam above the chair, since it was not concentrated and to bright on its own, we also had to make a lampshade out of cardboard which fitted the light. There were also no plugs nearby so we had to use extension chord to get power, this had to be clipped in position so it didnt get in the way or appear in the shots we filmed.

We also needed fake blood, we were originally going to make it out of red food colouring and water, however this was not viscous enough so instead we decided to use ketchup.

To do the acting we got Phill and Tom. Will also acted as well as doing some filming when possible. We decided that Will would play the vicitim, Phill would play the gaurd and that Tom would play the gang leader.

We then had to sort out costumes, we decided that the characters would be wearing suites because this would suite the genre of film we were producing. The gang leader and the gaurd both wore full suites with black dinner jackets and ties, however we decided that will would just wear a white shirt and trousers with no dinner jacket over the top and no tie, we felt this would create contrast between the two opposing sides, and would also help show who is protagonistic and who is antogonistic in the narrative since that white connotes goodness and purity and black connotes darkness and evil.

We filmed in a mainly chronological order as this seemed to be the best way to keep continuity, apart from the scene of the gang leader walking down the corridor which was in a slighly different place. This was filmed after the rest of the film.

We had to adapt some of the shots we used because they didn't work with our loaction. One of these was the shot of the door handle opening as the gaurd walked in, because the door to the room we were shooting in had no handle we had to just film a medium long shot of the gaurd walking through the door.
We found the punching scene fairly difficult to film, because of of the lack of trained stunt personal. Also the fake blood(which we used ketchup for) wasn't easy to spit out at the right angle.
The next shot we had to adjust to suite our location was the shot of the gang leader walking past a glass window in a door, since we had no doors with windows to the side of the corridor we were using we had to just do a straight mid-shot of him walking past.
One other problem we had throughout our filming was that there were beams near the middle of the room next to where the chair was, this made it hard to shoot some of the shots that we planned to film near the chair on the beam side as to not break the 180 degree rule.

Matt and Will