Filming Diary Part 2

Today we managed to film all of Dougie’s scenes which proved to be quite difficult as we came across several problems, making the shooting of our product quite time consuming. One problem was faced was the framing of the shots, we needed them to be match the shots we did of Doug in order to create the intended effect but we found this difficult to do as we filmed these scenes on two different days. We also struggled with the mise-en-scene of the drug user as it was difficult to represent him clearly to the audience because we used the same location for each character. This meant that we needed the inside of the house to look as different as possible from the businessman’s, but still allowing the audience to see the connection between the two characters.

First of all we began to shoot Dougie’s outside scenes; this involved the character stumbling out to the road and almost getting hit by the other character, Doug. We also shot the final scene in our film with the two characters facing each other. After we had completed filming the shots from outside, we then filmed Dougie entering his house. He stumbles over a briefcase, and then when he looks back it is gone, we hoped to show the audience further the extent of the characters drug use through hallucinations.  After completing these scenes, we uploaded our footage so far onto the macs ready to edit.