This post marks the beginning of shooting for Echoes of Silence. we shot the opening of the film yesterday in the university auditorium with a around 20 extras from uni as well as Graham our lead who is playing Julian. In the scene, lecturer Julian is delivering a space themed lecture to his class whilst the projector plays out scenes of galaxies and stars that adds a deal of vibrancy and colour to the scene. In all honesty, I was somewhat late for the shoot, but not without good reason, I was at the doctors, I also made up for it by bringing extras. When I did arrive on set as well my first port of call was to get permission forms for all of the actors involved which I will then put on the VLE, this is so that we have saved permission so actors can't hold the footage to ransom or anything similar, not that they would.
The shoot itself from what I was there for went well, particularly we got some very nice shots on the slider. Admittedly these probably took longer than they should have due to perfectionism and having plenty of time, however, this is by no means a bad thing, being so early into the production we don't run the risk of this being an issue because the shots that we did miss as a result of taking longer on others because we have plenty of times to go back for pick up shots.
There's not a great deal I can talk about in terms of what I did on this set as I was drafted to be an extra and the production log was taking too much time so was inevitably scrapped for sake of efficiency. That being said what I can talk about it the lighting, though it was not my job to input on this creatively, I did however give suggestions where I could and this I feel helped the shoot run smoother and lead to some nicely lit shots that looked great on camera. The only thing left to do was to hand this footage over to Beth and Jamie to work their magic on and see how beautiful they can make what we shot.
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