CONSTRUCTION: FILMING THE CONVERSATION BETWEEN SCIENTIST AND FRIEND

We initially filmed this scene in the school's drawing room, we chose to make the shot slightly out of focus so that the audience could not see the face of the friend, however we found that this did not work as well as we intended and it was difficult to hear the conversation. We decided to reshoot this scene, however we had to change our filming location due to the drawing room not being free; by using a range of different in focus shots, our new location worked well and the scene worked much better in our final edit.

CONSTRUCTION: FILMING THE NEWSPAPER SCENE

For this scene we needed multiple slow zoom in shots of the newspaper headlines which tell the audience what is happening in the world of the film. I placed the newspapers on a table covered in a black cloth and then put candles around them to light up the headlines, the candles also help to tell the audience that there is no energy in the world of the film. When filming, it took me a few tries to get the right shots that had a good camera angle and were in focus. I tested out having the lights on very dim in the room as I thought that the candles would not be bright enough, however I found that after adding some more candles for light it looked better when the lights were off completely. 

CONSTRUCTION: FILMING THE CALCULATION LIGHT SCENE

For this scene we chose to film a birds eye view shot zoom in of the calculations written by the scientist. We shot this scene with the lights off and using LED red coloured lights to shine onto the calculations which were placed on a black cloth as the background. It took a few takes for us to get the correct shot that we wanted as we had to get the framing of the paper and the intensity of the LED lighting correct.