Second Day of Filming

Although filming the second scene had been originally scheduled for the Friday it had to be postponed to the Tuesday. Once we had the camera set up and rolling however filming went smoothly and we got plenty of good shots.

We had originally intended for the second scene to be set in the morning but due to the lighting conditions we changed it to evening and kept our shots lit by artificial light alone. It gave the film a warmer feel which although we didn’t plan for worked surprisingly well. We even managed a focus shift in the shot where Allison puts down her mug and discovers the disc labelled ‘human testing.

The hardest shot to film was where Allison drops her mug of coffee in surprise and it shatters. This was difficult because the only mug we had permission to smash was actually pretty sturdy and it took two goes to get it to break with a lot of mopping up cold coffee in-between. Fortunately I thought to put Clingfilm over the camera lense before we shot this because everything got splattered with cold coffee. The coffee was cold obviously for safety reasons.