SHOOTING

The first 5 scenes have been shot. They are scenes (see storyboard below) 14, 20 & 22 (which both have 2 scenes each). The first thing we did was set the scene of the Spinster's bedroom up in my room. The professional lights were far too bright for the small room, and when we closed the shutters more the light just bleached out the areas it was lighting. We tried my dimmer switch and the hallway light outside the room. None of them looked how we wanted it, Nicola wanted it to be quite shadowy so we lit lots of candles and placed them around the set. This along with the overhead bulb, which was on it's lowest dimmer setting looked good enough. In these photos we have turned the light up a bit so you can't get an accurate idea of how it looked. 

The camera was set up high for the bed shots and lower looking at the floor in just a small area for the animated leaving shots. For the wolf/man I made some ears from a cushion cover and stuffed them, pinched 2 pebbles from my Mom's garden for testicles and put my horse riding boots in the bed for his feet.  Pillows and a blanket made up his body, which was covered with a patchwork blanket my Mom made, we also covered the storage heater with another blanket she made. It all looked good. A rustic looking pashmina was placed on the storage at the back of the bed to blend with our red capes and various objects were put on top. We had a LRRH doll, 2 toadstools, 2 candle lamps, 2 trinket boxes, 1 mirror cabinet, various different candles and an Ophelia print on the wall by Arthur Hughes. The print looked good in the set with the colours and the lights flickered lovely. We had the doll, toadstools, ears, boots, sheets and pebbles animated by stop framing. This took ages as we had expected but it was fun. The best part was Nic and I doing the middle 8 bit. We made up a little dance sequence taken from our original one and did it backwards so we walked on backwards, etc. We will then reverse it in Final Cut so it plays forwards and bring a slight surreal edge to the scene. David Lynch did this in Twin Peaks;Fire walk with me. It looks weird because the natural movement of a person walking forwards is different when moving backwards so because the film is played to look forwards you don't quite know what's strange about it!

After the main scenes we were shooting, we did a few extra shots that we may be able to use. Nic zoomed in on the LRRH doll, i filmed the bed with Nic in the mirror, i sat on the bed doing something funny with my legs and we both sat on the bed holding a pebble each. Tomorrow we need to edit what we've done.