Shoot 5: Shoot: 13th December (narrative, bedroom, tunnel, nightmare)

On the 13th of December we knew that we had to get a rough cut handed in the following week. Therefore, we shot on the friday morning for 3 hours, this was valuable time we needed and we were able to shoot enough footage that we could make a full rough cut out of. 

On this shoot we shot in a number of different locations these consisted of...

• Bedroom
• Garden bench
• Garden wall
• Underpass

These locations worked in our favour as we still had day light as we shot in the morning. Our main character would be doing different things in each scene. These were mostly narrative sequences where our character would be walking or tossing and turning in his bed.

We also used another character on this shoot. This character is signifying the nightmares in our video. The costume mise en scene for our character was black fur hooded jacket and a simple black mask this looked very effective and should work well in our video.  We thought the use of fire would be a good thing to include so we shot the nightmare character burning paper in his hands. The fire also has demonic denotations such as hell and torture which we thought worked well for our nightmare character.

Jake with camera 

One main thing that assisted us during our shoot was a snory camera which provided a CU of our characters face. The snory cam set up was poor and the thing fell apart as we were placing the camera on top of it - though it was previously made by another student. We improvised and got cling film and wrapped it round the camera and the wooden arm.

Behind jake on the picture on the right is the underpass location. this is an abstract location which looks very effective on the camera. We shot a variety of different shot types to make sure we got the variation we needed first time round.

Yet again we encountered the problem of our SD card being full which has brought us to the conclusion that we are going to buy a new one.

Camera