So we finally shot today! It was way more stressful than we thought it would be. We scheduled it to be at our school and when we got to the office we needed, the doors were locked. So after finding some people and calling who we needed, we got to shoot in there for half an hour.
Let’s just say we are going to need to reshoot some things since we were in such a rush to get everything done so quickly. The shots of our conversation between the two detectives weren’t the best. The shots weren’t horrible, but if we had more time or ways to make things a bit easier to actually get the kind of shots we wanted. The shots we got were okay, but they weren’t the best and when edited together, the continuity is pretty off and cuts are in weird places, so its not the best thing for us to have at the moment. We were also pretty rushed, so next time we reshoot we will have plenty of time to be able to get the right angles and distances that will fit our film.
For the shots of our evidence, they turned out really well. They were smooth, slow, and at the right distance and angle that we wanted. When edited and faded together, they looked really smooth and really mysterious since the audience wouldn’t know why there’s a murder in a house with all kinds of evidence. Shooting this sequence was pretty fun but time consuming for the most part. Setting up the mise en scene took and hour and a half and actually shooting took another hour and a half, so it was three hours that we spent shooting. It took a while but we had a great outcome of what we wanted. There was a few struggles trying to get some of the objects in place, and to get the right blood patterns. We also eventually ran out of fake blood (my hard earned $10 down the drain…), so we had to resort to some makeshift bood; ketchup. We did mix it with the tiniest bit of fake blood we had left, so it wasn’t awful looking, but it smelled quite awful. We also sprayed a ton of blood on Sitara’s carpet in which we had to clean up so her mother wouldn’t eradicate us. After all of this, Sitara’s room smelled like a disgusting mix of ketchup, cleaning supplies, and chemically blood. I felt bad for leaving her room with that smell, but you gotta do what you gotta do. After we edit some color correcting and getting everything in order, it’ll look exactly how like we pictured it to look.
Into The Truth 