Account Of The Shoot Day

The day started out with us gathering our equipment and props including cameras, tripods, costumes and weapons. We gathered our hardware and our actors and headed to Cornhill Manor to shoot. We began by holding a brief on what we were going to do, which shots and angles we would do first and progress from there. We set up the tripod on the driveway and white-balanced the camera before proceeding with the shoot. The interior and exterior car shots were the ones we did first, from when Simon drives the car up the driveway until Shane flags him down. Next we did the mercenarys' approaches and the dialogue shots, ending with the long shots. The dialogue was the hardest to do because Georgia completely overacted, with all the screaming and panicking as soon as I opened the door of the car. I didn't think my character was particularly alarming, I am meant to be a false police officer after all. All the hair probably set her off. I also couldn't summon the loud whistle that I can usually do, so that's another thing to add in during the editing process. After returning from Cornhill Manor to school, we set up the sniper rifle and did the sniper at the top of the hill. When all of the takes were done, we watched every one and decided what our course of action would be for editing.