Trick of the Dark- Shoot 1

Film shoot one, boom, here it is, finally the ball starts to roll on this, to be honest this is a huge overreaction to a tiny shoot but it feels fantastic to finally get some final footage for this film done. So, full disclosure, this will be a fairly small post because firstly, there was no sound, we didn't have the equipment on set and even if we did it would be basically useless because we were shooting in the sound stage and it is both pigeon infested and the slightest bit of wind makes the huge metal door start very loudly banging.

Having said that, this means that the scene will need to be dubbed at a later date but with there only being the one line in the scene so there should be no problem in doing this. So given that that has been highlighted I would now like to break down what they scene was and what happened. So, we were in the sound stage and there is a bar in front of a huge cartoon mural that serves as the perfect backdrop for a kids TV show so I got the two actors in the scene to dress brightly and then we gave the two actors a paintbrush and had them imitate painting something, then after getting some coverage shots from sides and getting cutaways we got the the films closing shot of Susie delivering the line while looking into the camera and holding the stare so that we can make the audience uneasy and also to give her words more weight. It is worth mentioning at this point we made a very conscious decision to frame differently from the rest of the film as this scene appears on a TV screen so there would be no cinema-scope because a kids TV show wouldn't have this so we had to frame differently. Performance wise there was not a great deal to be done in terms of direction, we gave the actors a jar of water and some paintbrushes and they painted the panel in front of them with water to mimic making something so on camera it looked like they had been painting. Then there was the line from Susie and then we held the camera on her face to get the most from her performance and to make it feel a little uncomfortable as that's what Id like the audience to feel in order for them to feel the weight of the reveal. There's not a great deal more I could say about this considering it will amount to little more than 30 seconds of screen time.