Because this was the last day that Joe could be on set, we as a crew really had to work extra hard to film as much of the remaining film as possible so that tomorrow (our last day on set) would be a much easier job to tackle with our crew down to just the 3 members. We managed to film more footage than we had on any of the previous 2 shoots and we were working so effectively as a unit to capture everything whilst not rushing and excepting a second rate take of any of the scenes; this meant that we had to stay much later than previously and due to the fact we were relying on Bob's parents for transport, me and Patrick had to leave before Joe and Bob who were left behind to pick up the last couple of shots that Joe needed to be there for (i.e. roller-blade shots).
One of the more interesting shots visually we shot today was one which required to use of my Lensbaby Composer. Having the ability to blur the image of our characters face in shot with the use of the LED lighting really sold the scene of time travel I thought.
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| Still from footage showing characters face highlighted with the Lensbaby blurring the image from the left, beginning to blur our characters face. |
The rest of this scene above proved quite tricking to light the way that we wanted, and I eventually had the idea of putting the LED on a extended tripod and whilst standing on a chair out of shot. lifted the LED light up and over some vents so that the light was shining directly down into the scene which finally gave us the look that we were looking for.
One of the more complex shots that required all hands on deck, involved the track and dolly again; the shot was very difficult to light and we eventually had to put one LED light onto the front of the dolly to keep the required lighting throughout the tracking shot and also I had to shining light onto our actors faces and back again timely whilst also quickly jumping out of shot before the tracking shot met it's final viewpoint. It took us quite a few attempts to get it right, but I feel that the hard work and team work really paid off with this shot.
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| Opening shot of the tracking scene described above; lighting from an LED attached to the front of the dolly. |
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| Shot as I shine the light from the LED past our actors face. |
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| Shot as I quickly shine the LED back across the actors face catching is line of sight before making a swift exit out of shot. |
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| End shot as actor walks towards hallway door, with me just out of shot hiding in a room just to the left out of sight. |
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