Fiction Adaptation - Shooting

Shooting was a very stressful and painful situation. I was set and ready to shoot on a Saturday having booked a camera on the previous Thursday, but Sophie happened to be very ill and couldn't do it. My biggest problem was that I had started doing the animation with her character already that it was almost too late to change it and start over again as I had put a lot of work into that. After talking with her, she said that she was happy to do it but whenever she felt a little bit better. It was coming down to the first week of December and I was still without shooting which was getting me very concerned, since if in the end I had to change the whole animation, I probably was not going to have time at all. Gladly after a lot of infections and bad days, Sophie started feeling a bit better and we filmed over a week after the day that we had planned. I had a massive relief.

On the actual day of shooting, the shoot itself only took around 40 mins. Since the real life bit of my video only lasts around 1 minute and a half, I knew exactly what I needed. I explained to her that the most important bit was for her to act sad or at least not happy at all or be smiling. She actually didn't quite well in my opinion. For the shooting I wanted a candle that was going to be a good element for the ending of my video. The main idea I had was to have close of on a round candle, which would darken the surroundings of it, which after blowing but was going to give about 2 seconds of pitch black that later in post I would make it as cutting to black. One thing that I needed to be checking all the time and struggled a lot with was a big mirror that she has in her room since I realised that things like the tripod or even myself were in it at some points and needed to get rid of it all the time.

Apart from all that the shooting went quite well. I didn't know where to put the tie that she picks up, as the original plan was to have it in some sort of special box, but Sophie gave a better idea that I liked even more which was having in under the pillow, which makes it much more special as well. Although it was long waiting and a bit of a stressful situation, it did work out actually pretty well. I ended up using Aimee's camera, a Canon 500D.