Wednesday 6th February.
Today, we began filming our short film. We started filming in the first lesson of the day by filming the library scene in our classroom in which is the student reading the two different articles on mobile phones listening to you and another article on living in a simulation.
We managed to get all the shots that were listed in the shot-list and possibly some additional ones. The reason I wanted to get a variety of shots was mainly because I believe that this adds more to the short film, instead of sticking to the typical shots.
Shots such as the close up of her hands typing on the keyboard and her eyes reading the article, create more of impact as it is more secretive, a medium shot of her sitting by the computer would not draw the audience as much as this. I believe that this makes the audience more intrigued.
Therefore, throughout filming, I ensured on getting multiple different shots throughout the filming day. This also gave us more footage to edit, which would make the 3-minute mark.
We chose to use my script to follow when filming and we filmed in order of the script, except for filming some establishing shots at the end. It took us about 3-4 hours to get all of the scenes done.
Once finished with filming, we started editing in last period of the college day. I started off my edit by dragging in clips and adding glitches to them between cuts, to create the conspiracy effect. We did come up with this effect during pre-production as we thought this would make our short film look more interesting and have more relation to the theme, it would complete the short film, or else without it, the short film would not necessarily make sense the way we want it to. Additionally, I recorded some ADR voice over for certain parts of the sequence, which will be edited and added into the sequence.
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