Week 11 – Shooting at Share House Location

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The Bank – photo credits: Kerri ! 🙂

On Monday, 5th October, STeve members travelled to Bianca’s place to shoot some on location scenes. We took a long forty-five minute tram ride to Preston on a hot, sunny day (that’s not… important at all…). On that afternoon, we shot the slasher horror, mockumentary and drama all in one day. It was definitely our most productive shoot to date.

We continued filming extra scenes for the Mockumentary because we felt quite interested in the progress of creating a mock documentary series. However, it is still under consideration because of our other genre scenes we shot.

There was not much preparation of the script as we ended up adding more ideas along the way. I really liked the style of process due to the fact that we kept adding more interesting ideas instead of being constrained to the ideas we put on paper and shoot accordingly to what was written. The improvisation had made it more realistic for the mockumentary as they were placed in a situation where they had to react to whatever the other person was saying. To top it off, we had great people playing their parts. Bianca, Kerri, Dylan and Raphael worked really well improvising together. Dylan and Bianca created the scene well and gave insights to how the character’s personality should be and we started shooting. Kerri and Raphael adapted well to their given personalities.

I learnt that even improvising can help come up with more creative ideas rather than brainstorming and imagining scenarios and putting it into a script. The dialogues seem more natural and so did the acting. To sum up my ramble, Team STeve came in to the shoot with a rough idea of Bianca’s Mockumentary (thanks to the mock shoots we did in the past weeks) and started adding more personality to each character (following Dylan’s sitcom characters) and improvised the filler shots for the mockumentary.

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me setting up the camera and framing up Bianca’s scene (that struggle… okay not really)

My part was the camera work. I was constantly thinking of ways to shoot a mockumentary. Dylan helped me quite a lot as he would give suggestions on how to shoot and which angle was probably best to get the right framing. I decided to go “spy mode” camera. I hid behind a wall and filmed most of the group shots in the kitchen. It was interesting way of shooting because it’s like the camera person is suppose to sneakily film their problematic situations in the share house.

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