The second half of the shoot took place at Leith Hill Place, and our actor was to walk around the house, bringing things back to life. This half of the video was scheduled for a morning slot and we drove over for around 10am.
Our first shot was in a long corridor, our actor is walking along it towards a slowly opening door which has a bright light coming from it. In order to create this ‘magical’ opening door, I wrapped a piece of string around the handle. Luckily, that side of the door is partially cropped out sand underexposed, so this basic put together technique worked really well and created the eerie feel we were hoping for. We had a few problems with the lights, we blew the fuse in one of the extension cords, causing this sequence to take us quite a long time to do. After that we shot the staircase sequence and realised it was lunch time. Luckily for us it was a Wednesday, allowing us to run over into the afternoons activity programme and continue shooting after our lunch break.
Our first shot was in a long corridor, our actor is walking along it towards a slowly opening door which has a bright light coming from it. In order to create this ‘magical’ opening door, I wrapped a piece of string around the handle. Luckily, that side of the door is partially cropped out sand underexposed, so this basic put together technique worked really well and created the eerie feel we were hoping for. We had a few problems with the lights, we blew the fuse in one of the extension cords, causing this sequence to take us quite a long time to do. After that we shot the staircase sequence and realised it was lunch time. Luckily for us it was a Wednesday, allowing us to run over into the afternoons activity programme and continue shooting after our lunch break.
Post lunch we split off into 2 teams, half the group shooting several of the regeneration sequences and the rest of the lip sync, whilst Paula and I shot the ballerina sequence, starring Paula as a toy come ballerina who plays out a dance sequence. We had placed her in front of a window, which meant we needed to light her as she appeared as a silhouette. We set up 2 lights which unfortunately threw hotspots onto the shiny painted surface of the window frame. We shot from most possible angles and captured most sections of Paula’s body whilst she was dancing, and then went on to shoot the ballerina inside the music box.
We regrouped to get the final shots of our actor picking up the ballerina box and setting it go. The light had changed considerably in this time and it was dark outside, so we shot away from the windows in an attempt to keep continuity.
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